Heteroglossolalia : navigating dialogic and differing discourse towards independent communication

Heteroglossolalia : navigating dialogic and differing discourse towards independent communication

Composition (Language arts)

English language -- Rhetoric

Rhetoric

Written communication

Laminack, Zachary Seth

2007

Huber, Beth A., 1963-

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Readers, writers, and teachers of both have long identified and touted the maxim ""good readers make good writers,"" or in reverse, ""good writers are often voracious readers."" My experience teaching first-year composition proved no different. I noticed that as my students began reading and interrogating texts, and continued throughout the course, their writing became noticeably better. Though a standard of measurement for ""better writing"" is perhaps impossible to apply universally, I noticed students' writing shift from a decidedly internal focus towards an outward focus, where students began to position themselves in larger and larger contexts and assert authority within those contexts. This thesis proposes heteroglossolalia, a term I coined, as an explanation for the transition from reading text towards generating texts of one's own, and further towards thinking independently within larger contexts. Examining M.M. Bakhtin's concept of heteroglossia through a post-structural lens in formed by Derrida's theories of language, and applying Vygotsky's theory of thought and language, with theories of reading proposed by Kathleen McCormick and Louise Rosenblatt, heteroglossolalia emerges in writing as a complex hybrid stylization, encompassing texts, their authors, and those authors' voices, all encountered and internalized through a dialogic and deferent reading situation. A movement from inner to outer speech is responsible for the transmutation of the voices and styles of others into writing of one's own, and writing as the catalyst for the movement from inner to outer speech is responsible for an increase in independent, contrasted to critical, thought.

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