I.R. Titunik

This is the one that tried to bring the Russian formalists and the Bakhtinites together and say they were basically doing the same thing (broadly, viewing narrative or language socioconstructively) except the formalists were like let's set down a very detailed structure first that describes cultural products as objects (culturally created, hence with cultural use-value) and then we can theory-forwardly look at what people are actually doing to make those objects some day in the distant future, and the Bakhtinites were like no! let's be prancy, let's flow with it, let's look at individual communicative acts, tease out their complexities, avoid reducing them to one interlocutor and recognize that you and I and everyone we know come together in each of our speech, not only between us, and in time that may give us something very detailed that's still probably not as useful as a few robust and flexible principles. The latter seems like less a stupid parlour trick or D&D manual, but these guys are all all right in my book.… (más)