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Bakhtin and the Circle refers to a group of Russian intellectuals in the early 20th century, centered around philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin, who explored dialogism, the nature of language, and the social context of literature, emphasizing the interplay between voices and the multiplicity of meanings in texts.
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Bakhtin and the Circle refers to a group of Russian intellectuals in the early 20th century, centered around philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin, who explored dialogism, the nature of language, and the social context of literature, emphasizing the interplay between voices and the multiplicity of meanings in texts.

Key research themes

1. How does Bakhtin's concept of dialogism and polyphony enhance understanding of intersubjectivity and ethical responsibility in language and social interaction?

This theme explores Bakhtin’s foundational ideas of dialogism and polyphony as frameworks for understanding the multiplicity of voices, perspectives, and ideological positions within communication. It emphasizes how responsibility toward the ‘other’ emerges within dialogic encounters, highlighting the co-construction of meaning and ethical relations in various contexts including literary writing, clinical encounters, and pedagogy. The theme is crucial because it grounds language use and social actions in responsiveness and responsibility, challenging monologic or reductionist views of communication.

Key finding: The paper asserts that Bakhtin’s philosophy embodies a polyphony of voices internally and externally, illustrating the dialogic capacity of language that cultivates responsibility toward the other’s singularity. Augusto... Read more
Key finding: This article applies Bakhtin’s early philosophy of the act to argue that clinical encounters are intersubjective, responsible Bakhtinian acts involving moral and epistemological complexity. Bakhtin’s framework reveals how... Read more
Key finding: The article establishes dialogism, verbal interaction, concrete utterance, and ideological sign as pillars linking Bakhtin Circle’s theory with Applied Linguistics (AL), offering a dialogically informed, interdisciplinary... Read more
Key finding: This study uses Bakhtinian dialogism to analyze how narrative sharing among novice teachers and interlocutors creates surplus vision and multiple understandings of teaching practice, fostering teacher identity development.... Read more

2. In what ways does Bakhtin’s notion of carnival and the grotesque body provide a methodology for analyzing cultural rituals and artistic expressions of identity?

This theme focuses on Bakhtin’s conceptualization of carnival as a social and cultural phenomenon that subverts traditional hierarchies by celebrating ambivalence, contradiction, and bodily excess (‘grotesque body’). It serves as a critical lens to analyze communal rites, rituals, and artistic works that negotiate identity through alterity and the inversion of binaries. The theme highlights how carnival’s dialogic principles enable participative resistance and reconstruction of cultural meanings in diverse historical and geographic contexts.

Key finding: This paper draws a rigorous analogy between pre-Islamic Karakalpak fertility rites and Bakhtin’s carnival concept, identifying shared motifs of fertility, death-birth cyclicality, and threshold phenomena. It concludes these... Read more
Key finding: The article employs Bakhtin’s dialogism and carnivalization to interpret Tarsila do Amaral’s art, especially her work 'Anthropophagy', revealing how Brazilian national identity is crafted through a dialogic clash of self and... Read more
Key finding: The study connects Vaginov’s novels with Bakhtin Circle debates, especially Bakhtin’s carnivalistic perspective, showing how carnivalesque literary elements enact a dialogical subversion of formalist aesthetics and... Read more

3. How can Bakhtin’s philosophy of unfinalizability and dialogic writing practices inform contemporary conceptions of academic and narrative writing?

This theme addresses theoretical and methodological innovations inspired by Bakhtin’s idea of unfinalizability—that texts and utterances are never closed but open to continual reinterpretation and negotiation. It emphasizes dialogic writing as an embodied, responsive process that subverts finalized, singular interpretations, enriching qualitative research and narrative formation in the human sciences. This perspective challenges conventional academic prose, advocating for polyphony and openness as epistemic virtues.

Key finding: The author illustrates how engagement with Bakhtin’s polyphonic novel informs an innovative writing approach—'listening writing'—that embraces multiplicity, fluidity, and openness to future voices. This method disrupts... Read more

All papers in Bakhtin and the Circle

O presente artigo se propõe a refletir sobre a concepção de "amor verdadeiro" a partir de "Malévola", live action Disney, que traz uma releitura da indústria estadunidense de sua própria animação - A bela adormecida (1959) - e dos contos... more
This article analyzes two advertisements from the same brand, but produced in different local media: France and Brazil. It aims to pursue the interrelation and nexus needed between the verbal, visual and extraverbal dimensions to produce... more
Este artigo propõe expor, de maneira introdutória, os estudos de Ivan Sollertínski, renomado musicólogo da União Soviética e importante membro do Círculo “Bakhtin, Medviédev, Volóchinov [B.M.V.]” (VAUTHIER, 2010). O objetivo é apresentar,... more
Este artigo propõe expor, de maneira introdutória, os estudos de Ivan Sollertínski, renomado musicólogo da União Soviética e importante membro do Círculo "Bakhtin, Medviédev, Volóchinov [B.M.V.]" (VAUTHIER, 2010). O objetivo é apresentar,... more
RESUMO Neste trabalho, defendemos um estatuto dialógico à atividade de análise linguística na leitura de textos. O conto A causa secreta, de Machado de Assis, é tomado como corpus, por a literatura constituir, esteticamente, uma... more
Este artigo analisa duas publicidades da mesma marca, produzidas em mídias locais diferentes: França e Brasil. Seu objetivo é a busca da inter-relação e do nexo necessários entre o verbal, o visual e o extraverbal na produção e... more
Neste artigo, o intuito e refletir acerca da concepcao de linguagem formulada por Bakhtin, Medviedev e Volochinov, em suas respectivas obras Problemas da Obra de Dostoievski (2010 [1929]), Metodo Formal nos Estudos Literarios (2012... more
This article aims to analyze reference-memories of three teachers beginning their careers in higher education, through (auto)biographical research. For that, an interview was used with questions about life history, school education,... more
This paper aims to present an analysis of the scientific dissemination discourse in the 19th century in Brazil. For such, we seek basis on the theoretical reflections that come from Bakhtin’s Circle in order to analyze one of the most... more
The Brazilian translation (2015) of Patrick Sériot’s Preface to the French translation (2010) of Marxism and the Philosophy of Language (MPL) provides a good opportunity to discuss this work and its relevance for the field of Human... more
Objectives: to analyze the canvas “Retrato de Glete de Alcântara” (freely translated as Portrait of Glete de Alcântara) and discuss the effect of the canvas for Tarsila do Amaral and for Brazilian nursing. Methods: a study in the... more
This paper presents a reflection attempting to situate the concepts of justice and argumentation in Perelman’s approach in dialogue with the Bakhtin Circle’s theories. For this purpose, it analyses the concept of justice, deals with the... more
In this paper, we aim to scrutinize the functioning of the verbal-visuality under a dialogic perspective of discourse, using as material of analysis a humorous video montage about the political actor DilmaRousseff, during the Brazilian... more
O artigo destaca a relação que os principais conceitos bakhtinianos vinculados ao diálogo, tais como: voz, audição, escuta, tom, tonalidade, entonação, acento, etc., mantêm com o oral. Diferentemente de outros teóricos, Bakhtin não faz... more
RESUMO A tradução brasileira (2015) do Prefácio de Patrick Sériot para a tradução francesa (2010) de Marxismo e filosofia da linguagem proporciona uma boa oportunidade para discutir a obra e sua relevância no campo das Ciências Humanas,... more
RESUMONeste artigo, o objetivo é rastrear, na emergência de enunciados realizados em cartazes nas séries de manifestações de rua no Brasil em 2013 e mobilizados em rede, movimentos discursivos que sinalizam relevante alteração ética e... more
Neste artigo, temos como objetivo perscrutar o funcionamento da verbo-visualidade de uma perspectiva dialógica do discurso, utilizando, como material de análise, uma videomontagem humorística acerca do ator político Dilma Rousseff,... more
Neste artigo, temos como objetivo perscrutar o funcionamento da verbo-visualidade de uma perspectiva dialógica do discurso, utilizando, como material de análise, uma videomontagem humorística acerca do ator político Dilma Rousseff,... more
The aim of the present study - which derives from a doctoral research - is to address the narratives of a teacher from early-childhood-education and from the initial years of elementary school within a public municipal school, so as to... more
The creation of a virtual community of practices for trainers' educators is a part of the doctorate's narrative inquiry, in process, which has its main goal in (re)gathering trainers' educators' narratives to organize a collection of... more
The purpose of this paper is to describe how the process of interlocution between a beginner teacher and a group of educational professionals occurred through narratives that the first one wrote about her teaching practice and sent to the... more
Bakhtin considera que a heterogeneidade dos gêneros decorre da relação entre a linguagem e as ações humanas, produzindo gêneros primários (simples) e secundários (complexos).  Com isso, o objetivo deste estudo foi verificar a transposição... more
Este artigo tem por escopo compreender a concepção de linguagem proposta na elaboração da filosofia da linguagem bakhtiniana, em especial, a partir das obras de Bakhtin, ECV (2011); de Medviédev, MFEL (2012); e de Volóchinov, MFL (2017).... more
The recent Paulo Bezerra’s translation of Bakhtin’s essay Speech genres (1952-1953) has shed new light on Bakhtin’s dialogic theory. Although the translator has already translated this essay that integrates collection Aesthetics of verbal... more
RESUMO O objetivo deste artigo é discutir as relações possíveis entre duas vertentes teóricas do início do século XX: o dialogismo bakhtiniano e a estilística de Vossler. Embora na demonstração de sua prática pedagógica em sala de aula... more
O artigo destaca a relação que os principais conceitos bakhtinianos vinculados ao diálogo, tais como: voz, audição, escuta, tom, tonalidade, entonação, acento, etc., mantêm com o oral. Diferentemente de outros teóricos, Bakhtin não faz... more
Este artigo tem como objetivo, fundamentado nos estudos bakhtinianos, refletir sobre a produção de fãs de Harry Potter, a partir do fanvideo Severo Snape e os Marotos, veiculado no YouTube. O método utilizado para a análise é o... more
This paper presents a dialogic reflection on carnivalization in Tarsila do Amaral. The painting Anthropophagy, composed by the syncrisis of A Negra and Abaporu, in dialogue with modern aesthetics, is the corpus, in comparison with other... more
Marxism and Philosophy of Language. Fundamental Problems of the Sociological Method in the Science of Language]. Tradução, notas e glossário de Sheila Grillo e Ekaterina Vólkova Américo. Ensaio introdutório de Sheila Grillo. São Paulo:... more
■ ABSTRACT: This paper proposes a dialogue between ancient rhetoric and the dialogic analysis of discourse, based on the oeuvre of Mikhail Bakhtin and the Circle. It aims to examine how teachings of rhetoric echo in the Bakhtinian... more
■ ABSTRACT: This paper proposes a dialogue between ancient rhetoric and the dialogic analysis of discourse, based on the oeuvre of Mikhail Bakhtin and the Circle. It aims to examine how teachings of rhetoric echo in the Bakhtinian... more
rukopisa pesničkih i proznih dela, znatan broj crteža-portreta prijatelja, pisaca, likova pojedinih junaka ili detalja iz svojih dela. Dubinu, snagu i značaj Puškinovog književnog dela, meĎutim, posebno su potvrĎvali plodovi podsticaja... more
Introdução Esta investigação científica tem como proposta identificar, analisar os conceitos musicais presentes na teoria do Círculo de Bakhtin, compreender a noção de linguagem para a formulação filosófico do grupo de intelectuais... more
RESUMO Busca-se, a partir das reflexões que aqui serão expostas, compreender a natureza do gênero discursivo canção, do conceito de estilo na perspectiva bakhtiniana e como este se aplica ao gênero e delimita-o nas relações intermediadas... more
Aim: Our aim is to offer and illustrates a novel meta-methodology to enhance the rigour of method selection and understanding of results in pluralist qualitative research (PQR). Method: To do so, we make innovative use of Braun and... more
In Rhetoric, Aristotle states that there are as many types of speech as classes of listeners, establishing that they are only three but the appearance of a new agent, an audiovisual and interactive medium, able to overcome the contingency... more
Abstract In Rhetoric, Aristotle states that there are as many types of speech as classes of listeners, establishing that they are only three but the appearance of a new agent, an audiovisual and interactive medium, able to overcome the... more
sobre poética sociológica) V. N. Voloshinov / M. M. Bakhtin I No estudo da literatura, o método sociológico tem sido aplicado quase que exclusivamente para tratar de questões históricas, enquanto permanece virtualmente intocado com... more
This article aims at presenting the relations between the theoretical formulations of the Bakhtin Circle and the current discussion on the scope of the so called Applied Linguistics (AL). In order to do that, we will briefly outline the... more
Sabe-se que os estudos linguísticos são fonte de fecundas discussões, pois nem sempre houve consenso entre os estudiosos da linguagem. Por um lado, há os que priorizam os aspectos formais da língua, dissecando-a cientificamente do fonema... more
In the late 1920s -early 1930s, the Russian poet and novelist Konstantin Vaginov (1899Vaginov ( -1934 wrote four novels which reproduce various discourses pertaining to the Russian humanities (philosophy, psychology, linguistics, study of... more
Translation of the article entitled "O Círculo de Bakhtin e a Linguística Aplicada" by Newton Duarte Molon & Rodolfo Vianna
Translation of the article entitled "Olhar e ler: verbo-visualidade em perspectiva dialógica" by Beth Brait
Objectives: This article aims to elaborate chronotope disruption - a changed relation to time and space - as a sensitizing concept for understanding chronic illness narratives. Methods: Sixteen men and 16 women with Type 2 diabetes were... more
This article analyzes two advertisements from the same brand, but produced in different local media: France and Brazil. It aims to pursue the interrelation and nexus needed between the verbal, visual and extraverbal dimensions to... more
This article analyzes two advertisements from the same brand, but produced in different local media: France and Brazil. It aims to pursue the interrelation and nexus needed between the verbal, visual and extraverbal dimensions to produce... more
This article contributes to the ongoing research on Bakhtin and the Circle"s possible contribution to the reading, the analysis and the interpretation of different modes of meaning production and meaning effect from texts whose main mark... more
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