Mikhail Bakhtin狂歡節概念的民主化意涵：從批判取向論述分析的理論困境談起
Democratization Implicated in Mikhail Bakhtin’s Concept of Carnival: A PerspecDilemma of Critically Oriented Discourse Analysis tive from the Reflections on the Theoretical
This paper aims to interpret the implication of democratization in Mikhail Bakhtin concept of carnival by reflecting the theoretical dilemma of critically oriented discourse analysis (CODA). Thereby, it proposes the theoretical framework to illustrate how the speaker deconstructs and reconstructs meaning with words. First, it affirms the implication of democratization to some degrees in CODA itself by reading its theoretical background. However, CODA doesn’t supply with sufficient resources to theorize how democratization functions onto language and text. Bakhtin’s perspective on carnivalized language and discourse of body is adequate to be articulated to describe “the language process of democratization” concretely in the next part. This paper primarily finds that Bakhtin attempts to proceed the kind of “bottom-up” philosophy of language to address the dialectical relationship between linguistic system and socio-political system. Meanwhile, Bakhtin also tries to deploy the specific “form of language,” such as “differentiation” and “articulation,” to expose the ideology and power relations of existed socio-political institution, by this way resignifying a brand new system of meaning and knowledge. Based on the research findings, this paper concludes that Bakhtin’s concept of carnival should be regarded as the ideal type of democratization on the one hand; it also revisits Saussure ’s semiology and inspires the post-structural discourse of theory on the other hand.
中文關鍵詞
Bakhtin、民主化、再意義化、批判取向論述分析、狂歡節、語言形式
英文關鍵詞
Bakhtin, democratization, resignification, critically oriented discourse analysis, carnival, form of language