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What is an utterance? (117 words) |
 | An utterance is a natural unit of speech bounded by breaths or pauses. |
| An utterance is a complete unit of talk, bounded by the speaker's silence. |
| Phonetically an utterance is a unit of speech bounded by silence. |
| Chapter 2 - Bakhtin and His World (Continued) (1668 words) |
| Any utterance -- from a short (single-word) rejoinder in everyday dialogue to the large novel or scientific treatise -- has, so to speak, an absolute beginning and an absolute end: its beginning is preceded by the utterances of others, and its end is followed by the responsive utterances of others. |
| Utterances are characterized by a change of speakers in a "specific finalization" determined by three aspects of a whole utterance: semantic exhaustion of the theme; the speaker's plan or speech will; and generic, compositional forms of finalization (76-77). |
| Bakhtin's theory of utterance counters the prevailing linguistics of his time by denying that utterances (parole) are "completely free combination[s] of forms of language" and therefore "purely individual acts," while the system of language (langue) is a social phenomenon (81). |
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