Voices in Dialogue: Taking Polyphony in Academic Writing Seriously

IF 1.9 1区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Written Communication Pub Date : 2023-12-12 DOI:10.1177/07410883231207104

Andrea Karsten

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Abstract

In the past decades, the notion of voice in the theorizing and teaching of academic writing has been the subject of much debate and conceptual change, especially concerning its relation to writer identity. Many newer accounts of voice and identity in academic writing draw on the dialogical concept of voice by Bakhtin. However, some theoretical and methodological inconsistencies have surfaced in the adaptions of the concept. Working from a refinement of the dialogical notion of voice based on the concepts of polyphony and interiorization, this article presents a methodological approach for analyzing voice(s) in writing. The article presents material around the evolution of an early-career researcher’s dissertation synopsis. The material is multilayered, including the writer’s text, transcripts from an interdisciplinary peer-feedback conversation with two colleagues, and a video-stimulated interview with the writer. Excerpts of the material were analyzed to trace the polyphony of interiorized voices that influenced the writing. This focus revealed the multivoicedness of academic texts as an effect of their history of coming into being. This article contributes to the question of voice and identity in academic writing from a dialogical psycholinguistic perspective by presenting a de-reifying notion of voice grounded in an understanding of writing as a polyphonic activity, which also feeds into the formation of a writer’s self.

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对话中的声音：认真对待学术写作中的复调现象

在过去的几十年里，学术写作理论和教学中的话语权概念一直是争论的主题，概念也在不断变化，尤其是在话语权与作家身份的关系方面。许多关于学术写作中声音和身份的新说法都借鉴了巴赫金的对话式声音概念。然而，在对这一概念进行调整时，出现了一些理论和方法上的不一致。本文从基于复调和内部化概念的对话性声音概念出发，提出了一种分析写作中声音的方法论。文章围绕一位早期研究人员的论文提纲的演变过程提供了材料。这些材料是多层次的，包括作者的文本、与两位同事的跨学科同行反馈对话记录，以及对作者的视频采访。对材料的摘录进行了分析，以追溯影响写作的内化声音的复调。这一重点揭示了学术文本的多声音性，这是其产生历史的影响。本文从对话心理语言学的视角出发，提出了一种去重化的声音概念，将写作理解为一种复调活动，并将其融入到作家自我的形成过程中，从而对学术写作中的声音和身份问题做出了贡献。

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Written Communication COMMUNICATION-

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3.90

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15.80%

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期刊介绍： Written Communication is an international multidisciplinary journal that publishes theory and research in writing from fields including anthropology, English, education, history, journalism, linguistics, psychology, and rhetoric. Among topics of interest are the nature of writing ability; the assessment of writing; the impact of technology on writing (and the impact of writing on technology); the social and political consequences of writing and writing instruction; nonacademic writing; literacy (including workplace and emergent literacy and the effects of classroom processes on literacy development); the social construction of knowledge; the nature of writing in disciplinary and professional domains.