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Bakhtin and The Circle: Languages, Genres and Production of Meaning / Bakhtin e o Círculo: línguas, discursos, gêneros e produção de sentido The victory of one reigning language (dialect) over the others, the supplanting of languages, their enslavement, the process of illuminating them with the True Word, the incorporation of barbarians and lower social strata into a unitary language of culture and truth […]all this determined the content and power of the category of "unitary language" in linguistic and stylistic thought, and determined its creative, style-shaping role in the majority of the poetic genres that coalesced in the channel formed by those same centripetal forces of verbal-ideological life. […] alongside verbalideological centralization and unification, the uninterrupted processes of decentralization and disunification go forward.

There are some ephemeral events in 2015 that are very significant to those who study language from a dialogical perspective. Among them, we immediately highlight Mikhaïl M. Bakhtin's and Valentin N. Voloshinov's birthday. These two renowned thinkers of the Circle were born in 1895 and if alive would be celebrating their 120 th birthday. We should also call attention to the publication of the first Russian edition of some important works: Rabelais and his World (Творчество франсуа Рабле и народная культура средневековья и ренессанса), published in 1965 (50 years ago); Questions of Literature and Aesthetics (Вопросы литературы и эстетики: исследования разных лет), the collection of classical essays, such as The Problem of Content, Material, and Form in Verbal Art (Проблема содержания, материала и формы в словесном), Discourse in the Novel (Слово в романе), From the Prehistory of Novelistic Discourse (Из предыстории романного слова), Epic and Novel: Toward a Methodology for the Study of the Novel (Эпос и роман (О методологии исследования романа)), 1 Rabelais and Gogol: The Art of Discourse and the Popular Culture of Laughter (Рабле и Гоголь (Искусство слова и народная смеховая культура)), 2 published in 1975 (40 years ago); On Mayakovsky, 3 published in 1995 (20 years ago) under the title of Sketch for an Article on V. V. Mayakovisky in Dialog. Karnaval. Khronotop [Dialogue. Carnival. Chronotope] by V. V. Kójonov (Наброскам к статье о Маяковском). In 1975, precisely 40 years ago, M. M. Bakhtin died in Moscow. These events provide the backdrop for Bakhtiniana's present issue [10 (2)]. As we recognize that the members of the Circle were committed to discussing language 1 TN. The essays Epic and Novel, From the Prehistory of Novelistic Discourse, and Discourse in the Novel were published in The Dialogic Imagination (BAKHTIN, M. The Dialogic Imagination.

All content of Bakhtiniana. Revista de Estudos do Discurso is licensed under a Creative Commons attribution-type CC-BY 4.0 EDITORIAL Bakhtiniana. A Journal of Discourse Studies / Bakhtiniana. Uma revista de estudos do discurso[…] for we have in mind discourse, that is, language in its concrete living totality, and not language as the specific object of linguistics, something arrived at through a completely legitimate and necessary abstraction from various aspects of the concrete life of the word. (…) [the analyses that follow] (…) belong rather to metalinguistics, if we understand by that term the study of those aspects in the life of the word, not yet shaped into separate and specific disciplines, that exceedand completely legitimatelythe boundaries of linguistics.

The 'post-truth' world [...] shows total disregard for even visible and verifiable facts and hence any consideration for truth seems far-fetched. Unlike the 'world of lies' that knows the truth and conceals it with lies, the post-truth world freely distorts truth in 'anything goes' approach. Lakshmi Bandlamudi 1 Every ideological field uses language, but each one does it in its own way. Mikhail Bakhtin 2 [...] to read is to make our body work [...] at the invitation of text's signs, of all the languages that traverse it [...] Roland Barthes 3 Many Brazilian and global events have surprised and shocked us in recent times. Those events are amplified by the virtual universe. Boundaries between public and private spaces and events become blurred and we start inhabiting a world of "posttruth," as many say. Among them we find Lakshmi Bandlamudi, whose words are also present in this editorial's first epigraph (2019, p.184). The reduced appreciation for scientific knowledge is one of the shocking aspects of our present reality, which has caused us, from scientific and academic spheres, distress. For this reason, Bakhtiniana's introductory texts published in the latest issues reminded readers of "this difficult moment for Brazilian research, Brazilian research development agencies, CNPq [Brazilian National Research Council], in particular, and for education in Brazil, in general." We are also aware that our research studies, carried out in the Humanities and Social sciences, are among those whose importance, perhaps,

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A meaning only reveals its depth once it has encountered and come into contact with another, foreign meaning: they engage in a kind of dialogue, which surmounts the closedness and one-sidedness of these particular meanings, these cultures.

To release the third annual publication of a bilingual journal is always a great joy and an important academic achievement, especially when we consider with great seriousness the challenge that it represents for the English and