Bakhtinian Perspectives on Language and Culture

List of figures Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Thinking Culture Dialogically; F.Bostad, C.Brandist, L.S.Evensen & H.C.Faber PART ONE: THE BAKHTIN CIRCLE Law and the Genres of Discourse: The Bakhtin Circle's Theory of Language and the Phenomenology of Right; C.Brandist Rhetoric, The Dialogue Principle and the Fantastic in Bakhtin's Thought; R.Lachmann Bakhtin's Triadic Epistemology and Ideologies of Dialogism; S.Ongstad PART TWO: THE THEORY OF LANGUAGE Between Relativism and Absolutism: Towards an Emergentist Definition of Meaning Potential; M.Lähteenmäki Recontextualising Non-Bakhtinian Theories of Language: A Bakhtinian Analysis; P.Linell Language, Thinking and Embodiment: Bakhtin, Whorf and Merleau-Ponty; H.Dufva From Dialogue to Dialogism: The Confessions of a Writing Researcher; L.S.Evensen PART THREE: NEW TECHNOLOGY AND VISUAL ART Dialogue in Electronic Public Space: The Semiotics of Time, Space and the Internet; F.Bostad 'Thought Drawing': Dialogical Thinking and Dialogical Culture at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art; H.C.Faber Negotiating Meaning: The Dialogue Imagination in Electronic Art; E.Kac A Dialogue with an Idiot? Some Interactive Computer-Based Art; B.Graham Index