International migration is expanding rapidly, and the experience of aging is changing with it. The Spanish sociologist Manuel Castells describes our society as dominated by a ‘space of flows’ arising from the rapid interchange of information and ideas through new information systems; but the movement of people throughout what Castells calls ‘the space of places’ is an equally striking character...

Resumo: Ensaio em que se entrelaçam contribuições teóricas de Mikhail Bakhtin, como foram destacadas por Cristovão Tezza (2003) sua tese doutorado “Entre a prosa e poesia: Bakhtin o formalismo russo”, um discurso rememorativo da trajetória pessoal autora, dialogando com outras referências, destacando inconclusibilidade obra bakhtiniana caráter responsivo do papel dialógico linguagem, seja ou po...

khwaja nasīr al-dīn tūsī is accused, by many, of collaborating with the mongol invaders and legitimizing their domination (power). using the identity theory of manuel castells and discourse theory, the present essay hypothesizes that khwaja nasīr has tried to create iranian identity utilizing the archetypes of iranshahr and has founded a programmed identity that was later followed by other bure...

This paper traces the thematic units of science and technology in the songs of Humberto Gessinger. We conducted an analysis of three songs, according to the studies of the Bakhtin Circle, by observing the inclusion of words and expressions of science in this poetic production. It transpires from this analysis that by including these words into popular song, Gessinger brings echoes of scientific...

This article explores the use of different techniques in carnival and carnivalized texts in the creation of new meanings and alternatives, as Mikhail Bakhtin and Charlotte Perkins Gilman did, the former regarding the social hierarchy and the latter more on feminist issues. Its main objective is to provide an overview on some diverse devices that are used in relation to the fight against authori...

polyphony is a term applied by bakhtin to describe the features of dostoevsky's poetics. according to bakhtin, polyphony is based on dialogism and to respect to the others 'opinion. in this case, polyphony is an achievement that releases human thought of dogmatism. molavi, prior to bakhtin, emphasized on otherness and avoidance of dogmatism and selfdom. polyphony is a twentieth century idiom a...