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1、Bakhtin'sDimensionsofLanguageandtheAnalysisofConversationRichardHoltworkoftheMikhailBakhtincircleisexaminedtodiscoverusefulintersectionsbetweentheirapproachtosituatedtalkandthatofconversationanalysis(CA).Al-thoughtheBakhtinandCAcomefromdistinctivetraditions,theyareshowntoshare
2、manyconceptsabouttheanalysisofconversation.,ComparingtheapproachesyieldsthreeBakhtiniandimensionsoflanguage:openandclosedperception,ownership,andincompleteness.Thesedimensionsareappliedtothreewell-knownsamplesfromtheliteratureonanalysisoftalk,demonstratinghowtheproblemspaceina
3、nalysisoftalkcanbeexpanded.HieworkoftheBakhtincircleisthusshowntobeavaluableadditiontotheinvestigationalrepertoireoftheconversationanalyst.KEYCONCEPTSBakhtin,situatedtalk,conversationanalysis,sociolinguisticsRichardHolt(Ph.D.,UniversityofIUinoismUrbana-Champaign,1994)isanAssoc
4、iateProfessor,DepartmentofCommunication,NorthernIllinoisUni-versity,DeKalb,IL60115.hevoluminousandeclecticwritingsofMikhailM.Bakhtinandhiscolleagues,Tknowncollectivelyasthe"Bakhtincircle"orthe"Bakhtingroup"(Clark&Holquist,1984;Morson&Emerson,1990)compriseabodyofscholarlylitera
5、-turethathasprofoundlyaffectedthestudyoflanguageandculture.Whethertheirfocusisliterature(Bakhtin,1984a),semiology(Voloshinov,1973),literarycriticism(Medvedev,1985),theactofartisticcreativity(Bakhtin,1990),orpsychology(Voloshinov,1976),theBakhtingroupconsistentlyembracedtheprin
6、ciplethatnodis-courseexistswhichisnotsituatedinaspecificplaceandtime.Communicating(orpriortocommunicating,thinking)involvesturning,nottowardinternalontologicalverification,butoutwardintheactofjoiningoneselftoexistence.MethodsbasedonBakhtinofferaprovocativealternativetosomerece
7、ivedviewsofconversationanalysis(CA).^TheBakhtinperspective,judiciouslyemployed,probeslanguageandlifeinwaysthatpointupalternativeentrypointstosomeofCA'spersis-tentproblems.AlthoughtheCircle'sperspectivesdonotcompriseamethodofconver-sationanalysis,perse,theirinsightsintothenatur
8、eofsituatedtalkallowustoexamineCAfindingsinwayspotentiallypro