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The Outer World and Inner Speech: Bakhtin, Vygotsky, and the Internalization of Language

  • Caryl Emerson (author)
Chapter of: Extraterritorialities in Occupied Worlds(pp. 423–444)

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TitleThe Outer World and Inner Speech
SubtitleBakhtin, Vygotsky, and the Internalization of Language
ContributorCaryl Emerson (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0131.1.20
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/extraterritorialities-in-occupied-worlds/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
CopyrightEmerson, Caryl
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2016-02-16
Long abstractIn this statement from The Order of Things, Michel Foucault speaks of the nine-teenth-century revolution in linguistics that, in effect, rediscovered language and made it the object of systematic study in its own right. Language, no longer seen as a transparent medium, was granted “its own particular density [...] and laws of its own.” Yet it is not self-evident how we are made more free by understanding that words are not just a repository of knowledge. The density of language is a troublesome postulate. That postulate, according to Foucault, raises difficult epistemological problems and presents theorists with a choice:The critical elevation of language, which was a compensation for its sub-sidence within the object, implied that it had been brought nearer both to an act of knowing, pure of all words, and to the unconscious element in our discourse. It had to be either made transparent to the forms of knowl-edge, or thrust down into the contents of the unconscious.2The debate on the status of language has been enormous and subtle, but it would seem that these two poles described by Foucault remain constantly in effect. Language is, on the one hand, a transparent medium from which to deduce a metalanguage and on which to build statistical and mechanical models, or language is, on the other hand, a product of the individual psyche and ultimately subject to psychic transformation, to what Foucault calls “dim mechanisms, faceless determinations, a whole landscape of shadow.”
Page rangepp. 423–444
Print length22 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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Caryl Emerson

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