Mark Evan Nelson and Glynda A. Hull in their discoursive chapter on “Self –preservation through multimedia,” propose that Mikhail Bakhtin’s theories of heteroglossia and addressivity inform understandings of “new and emerging speech genres,” namely digital stories. “Heteroglossia” and “addressivity” are theories that attempt to explain “how literary texts mean” (emphasis Bakhtin’s). Heteroglossia describes “the many-languaged-ness” […]

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