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‘Everyday creativity is always dialogical in Bakhtin’s sense.’

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The Open University E301 The art of English TMA 03 'Everyday creativity is always dialogical in Bakhtin's sense.' Drawing on ideas and examples gained from your study of the first part of the course, to what extent do you agree or disagree with this perspective? In this assignment the aim is to discuss to what extent Bakhtin's ideas about language creativity are justifiable with specific reference to this course. It will start with an introduction to Mikhail Bakhtin and particularly his ideas of dialogism along with reference to some other researchers. The essay will then continue by discussing how Bakhtin's ideas have been applied to other parts of the course and then the conclusion incorporates the extent to which Bakhtin's perspective is adequate. Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) was a Russian literary scholar from the beginning to the middle of the twentieth century. He developed what became known as a 'socio-cultural' theory of language...

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