10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ACCENTUALITY»
Discover the use of
accentuality in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
accentuality and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Culture and Power in Cultural Studies: The Politics of ...
The making of meaning is always confronted by what Valentin Volosinov
identifies as the 'multi-accentuality' of the sign. Rather than being inscribed with a
single meaning, a sign can be articulated with different 'accents'; that is, it can be
made ...
Multi-accentuality. Choosing not to combine a ahooray« word (likeliberated)
witha aboo«word(like terrorist) seems at firstsightlike a linguistic choice. We pick
our way through contending discourses by choosing and combining signs whose
...
3
Reading the Homeless: The Media's Image of Homeless Culture
A semiotic inflection of this theory produces, "decent" as an example of the multi-
accentuality of the sign by which the social struggle is continued in the semiotic
domain (Volosi- nov, 1973). Bill is, in this light, stealing the word from the ...
4
Media and Cultural Theory
In Volosinov's logic the stabilisation of the sign system and the enforcement of uni
-accentuality is key feature of capitalism. And, indeed, contemporary exchange
values assigned to consumer goods are predicted on the stability of symbolic ...
Stephen Hill, Bevis Fenner
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After the Media: Culture and Identity in the 21st Century
This social multi- accentuality of the ideological sign is a very crucial aspect' (Hall
, 2009: 132). Notions of dominant ideology, even Althusser's, stress instead the
uni- accentuality of cultural reproduction, whereas Volosinov sees this ...
Peter Bennett, Alex Kendall, Julian McDougall, 2011
The making of meaning is always entangled in what Valentin Volosinov ([1973]
1986) identifies as the 'multi-accentuality' of the sign. Rather than being inscribed
with a single meaning, a sign can be articulated with different 'accents'; that is, ...
Monika Seidl, Roman Horak, Lawrence Grossberg, 2009
Multi-accentuality is used by VoloSnov to refer to the way in which language
produces different, even opposing meanings depending on how it is 'accented'
by those who 'speak' it within a given social context. The line 'God save the
Queen' ...
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Text in Education and Society
This is particularly evident in cases such as government-to-people speech acts,
where the power relations are especially obvious. Those holding power strive to
drive inward the multi-accentuality of the sign, and to make it mono-accentual, ...
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Communication, Cultural and Media Studies: The Key Concepts
MULTI-ACCENTUALITY. A property of signs, consisting in the capacity every sign
has to signify more than one meaning, depending on the circumstances of its use
. The term was coined by Volosinov (1973) as part of an argument which ...
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An Introduction to Television Studies
This characteristic is called multi-accentuality. Twin Peaks' producer Mark Frost
designed the serial to appeal to audiences of American 'quality drama',
especially the wealthy and discerning viewers of most interest to US television
networks.
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ACCENTUALITY»
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accentuality is used in the context of the following news items.
I Contain Multitudes
Most of the mouth-filling terms he coined – dialogism, double-voicedness, chronotope, heteroglossia, multi-accentuality – have passed into the ... «London Review of Books, Jun 07»
