The Notion of “Context” in Mikhail Bakhin and His Circle
Sheila Vieira de Camargo GRILLO
Abstract:The purpose of this paper is epistemological. We aim at analyzing the notion of context in theories by Bakhtin, Medviédev and Volóchinov. In order to demonstrate the present relevance of such purpose, we start by commenting on recent theorizations about context, developed in François Rastier’s interpretative semantics and in Teun van Dijk’s critical discourse analysis (CDA). The notion of context was discussed in Mikhail Bakhtin’s philosophical works, in Bakhtin, Medviédev and Volóchinov’s sociological method,… Show more
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