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d. 1975 Russia

Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (17 November 1895 – 7 March 1975) was a Russian philosopher, literary critic, semiotician and scholar who worked on literary theory, ethics, and the philosophy of language.

Russia
Philosophers

Also known as: Bakhtin

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Language is not a neutral medium that passes freely and easily into the private property of the speaker's intentions; it is populated—overpopulated—with the intentions of others.

Discourse in the Novel (1935)

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