Class Notes

Here's a representation of our class discussion today:

Heteroglossia: Meaning is never singular but plural in nature. The "right" meaning depends on context, and no two contexts are the same.

Dialogism: Language is interactive. Every meaning affects every other meaning.

Intertextuality: You drew a Cartesian plane (x/y axis). Along X, you drew the writer and the audience; along the Y, you drew "TIME," with old texts at one end and current texts at the other end.

The basic idea was that meaning is influenced by the writer and the audience as well as all of the texts that have come before and all the texts at are being produced in the here and now.