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Quote by Mikhail Bakhtin

“Truth is not born nor is it to be found inside the head of an individual person, it is born between people collectively searching for truth, in the process of their dialogic interaction”

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Mikhail Bakhtin

Mikhail Bakhtin was a Russian philosopher, cultural theorist, and critic, born on November 17, 1895, and died on March 7, 1975. He is renowned for his profound insights into language, literature, and culture, particularly his research on the carnival, folk tale, and dialogic theory. more

“It becomes 'one's own' only when the speaker populates it with his own intentions, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention. Prior to this moment of appropriation, the word does not exist in a neutral and impersonal language (it is not, after all, out of a dictionary that the speaker gets his words!), but rather it exists in other people's mouths, in other people's contexts, serving other people's intentions: it is from there that one must take the word, and make it one's own”

People Doe Moments Language Mouths Intention Serving Speakers Accents Dictionary Serving Others Expressive Adapting Appropriation

Author:Mikhail Bakhtin

“Words belong to nobody, and in themselves they evaluate nothing. But they can serve any speaker and be used for the most varied and directly contradictory evaluations on the part of the speakers.”

Used Speakers Contradictory Evaluate Evaluation

Author:Mikhail Bakhtin

“The word in language is half someone else’s… it exists in other people’s mouths, in other people’s contexts, serving other people’s intentions: it is from there that one must take the word, and make it one’s own.”

People Language Half Mouths Intention Serving Serving Others

Author:Mikhail Bakhtin

“In order to understand, it is immensely important for the person who understands to be located outside the object of his or her creative understanding—in time, in space, in culture. For one cannot even really see one's own exterior and comprehend it as a whole, and no mirrors or photographs can help; our real exterior can be seen and understood only by other people, because they are located outside us in space, and because they are others.”