The forms of the presence of the other in the circulation of discourses

Abstract

This paper analyzes the forms of alterity in newspapers’ letters to the editor. Based on the dialogic discursive theory, it examines recent discussions on the interpretation of Bakthin’s writings, especially the question of authorship which is related to the epistemological basis of Bakhtin and Volochinov’s thought, which explain the different descriptions of the others’ discourses in the authors’ work. The analysis of the corpus demonstrates the interrelation between the forms in which the presence of the other appear and the genre, the point of view and the argumentation.