In postmodern cinematic arts, specifically commercially successful ones, the presence of director on screen through camera's position could be perceived as a limitation against notion heteroglossia, even if script requires an objective narrative technique. When suggests only characters’ Point View shots (PoV) or multi-vocal narratives, camera from director’s audience’s eye level is common filmi...

What is the role of the artist in re-creating a cultural landscape where the psychology and identity are shaped by multiple narratives of wars? the author’s art practice attempts to demonstrate the role of digital media in providing a platform for visual representation of multiple narratives. Article Frontispiece. Destruction N° 3, mixed media and human blood, digital print, 40 cm × 53 cm, 2003...

this paper represents an attempt to explore mikhail bakhtin's ideas in the process of interpretation of some selected farsi poems by a few contemporary iranian poets. in so doing, the paper first seeks to cast a rapid glance at bakhtin's era, which shaped his literary philosophical views then it continues with a brief discussion of some of the characteristic features of his ideology, ...

Houshang Golshiri is among the Iranian leading creative and imaginative fiction writers who managed to open up new horizons in Iranian fiction. Hence he could be claimed to be an innovative avant-garde short story writer with unique stylistic characteristics. Although inspired by fiction writers such as Alavi, Sadeqi, Golestan and Sa'edi in the techniques of narration, Golshiri nonetheless stan...

The current English-only educational climate in California presents children with polarizing discourses about national belonging (Bailey 2007). This study uses language socialization theory (e.g., Garret and Baquedano-López 2002) Bakhtin’s (1981) concept of “heteroglossia” to examine how members a peer group linguistic minority attending bilingual Spanish-English preschool used practices among ...

theatre enjoys the highest status in social relationships and this trait arises from two characteristics: the first one is that theatre is formed at the time and place of performance. theatre is created in specific time on stage for the audience. the second one is direct presence of the audience which is the third basic element of theatre. theatre is created through direct encounter of actors a...

Most postcolonial African writers choose English as the language of their literary works for the reason of wider audience reception but come to indigenize it to decolonize the colonial tool, i.e. colonial language. The translinguistic process of relexification means subverting colonial cultural imperialism and colonial linguistic imposition through the dialogic interaction opened in the w...

The present study sets out to investigate the narrator’s textual position in Grass’s The Tin Drum. Although authorial self-dramatization through affinities with one or more characters in the work is undeniable, this study mainly concentrates on the inner interpenetrations of heteroglot utterances as uttered by an unreliable first-person narrator, Oskar Matzerath, in the light of the Bakhtinian ...

The articles in this special issue of the Journal of Health Communication offer a comprehensive and nuanced survey of the extensive literature on behavior change linked to the improvement of global child health. The contributions are packed with empirical data and findings drawn from an extensive and scattered literature. This is not a small feat considering that behavior change and child healt...