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Most languages are incapable of neutrality

The term heteroglossia refers to the qualities of a language that are extralinguistic, but common to all languages. These include qualities such as perspective, evaluation, and ideological positioning.


Heteroglossia is "the base condition governing the operation of meaning in
any  utterance. To make an utterance means to "appropriate the words of others and populate them with one's own intention

In this way most languages are incapable of neutrality, for every word is inextricably bound to the context in which it exists


As to writers,  for the purpose of his/her writing, an author must create entire worlds and, in doing so, is forced to make use of the organizing categories of the real world in which he lives.

According to Bakhtin, the novel as a genre is unique in that it is able to embrace, ingest, and devour other genres while still maintaining its status as a novel. Other genres, however, cannot emulate the novel without damaging their own distinct identity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Bakhtin


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