The XII International Bakhtin Conference, Jyväskylä 18–22 July 2005
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Time and change
- structuralist accounts of semiotic codes try to arrest time
- but change should not have to be added to the theory as an
afterthought
- Bakhtin: every linguistic act is individual—empirically unique
- there’s no similarity between individual acts unless intentionally
created
- similarity demands decontextualization: a unique act has to be
partly broken down to recurrent features