Double Voiced Discourse

Originally employed by Bakhtin to compliment his concept of dialogism, a double voiced discourse recognizes the dialogic force contained within any utterance. No word in language can have a single, independent meaning. All language, every utterance is always pregnant with traces of their prior use, indeed made recognisable, made into language by their prior use; and at the same time addressed towards other implied speakers. Without the existence of an implied reader, texts remain nothing but marks on a surface. This vision is essentially intertextual, intertextuality itself first named by Kristeva in her engagement with Bakhtin’s work.

Related Terms
Dialogism, Carnival/Carnivalesque, Parody