Culture, events, speech genres and stories

• Authors: Peter Michalovič
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this paper is to interpret systematically M. M. Bakhtin’s views on genre. Although Aristotle was the first philosopher-and one of the first thinkers in general who focused on the issues of artistic and rhetorical genres, philosophy as such did not treat these issues for a considerably long time. One of the first philosophers who approached the genre issue within the larger context of the philosophy of language was Mikhail M. Bakhtin, a Russian philosopher and a literary scholar. As early as the 1920s he founded philosophical thinking on the so-called small speech genres, which later served as the basis for a remarkable theory of primary and secondary genres. Bakhtin is a world renowned theoretician on the novel, but his genre theory is nevertheless very topical, too, since it relates to issues focused on by philosophers much later.

Keywords

EN

event; small speech genre; story; consummatedness; compositional procedures; architectural form

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Human Affairs
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 21
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 98-107

Dates

published

2011-06-01

online

2011-06-16

Contributors

author

Peter Michalovič

• Comenius University

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/s13374-011-0012-x