Speech Genres and Other Late Essays: 8 (University of Texas Press Slavic Series) Paperback – 1 Jan. 1987

If you are into bakhtin a recommended read.

This collection of late essays is essential for any student of Bakhtin in order to achieve a fuller understanding of the totality of his work. While the essays are varied, ranging from a discussion of the Bildungsroman & Goethe's sense of time to questions of approaching text from a foundation of cultural dialog, perhaps the most important essay here is the one lending its name to the title. Describing as never before Bakhtin's sense of speech genre as a post-Formalist critique of speech as monad, it is a crucial essay in understanding Bakhtin's entire paradigm of dialogic communication. Along with his earlier works, this collection of essays is a must for any student of linguistics, semantics, semiotics, literature, or any particular school of philosophy.

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I love Mikhail Bakhtin on the dialogic imagination. This collection of essays carries his observations about the ways in which fictional characters speak giving clues to their class, race, geographical origin, education and a host of personal characteristics.

Beautiful thinking on primal linguistics. Consciousness. Thought. Language. Being. Reasoning and evaluating. How learning happens. Bakhtin's theories are clear and useful for explaining why dialogical interaction is critical to learning.