Abstract

LINDIG CISNEROS, Erika. The discursive subject: social construction of subjectivities in some works of Bakhtin and his circle. Acta poét [online]. 2009, vol.30, n.1, pp.323-339. ISSN 2448-735X.

This paper discusses the critical re-signification of the notions "subject" and "consciousness" in some works of Mikhail Bakhtin and his circle. If Bakhtin and the members of his circle inherited from German Romanticism, and specifically from Wilhelm von Humboldt, the tenet that consciousness is linguistically constituted (even if they did not fully acknowledge this influence), the recognition of language as a socio-ideological phenomenon, not present in Humboldt's Romanticism, modified the notions of consciousness and subject, which depend on language. I dwell on the theoretical possibilities arising from this modification and on their relevancy when thinking about the issues of discursive social exclusion.

Keywords : Bakhtin; subject; consciousness; discourse; language.

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