The Theory of Verbal Communication in the Works of M. M. Bakhtin and L. S. Vygotsky

Abstract

No matter which of the sciences devoted to speech and language we consider—linguistics, semiotics, or developmental psycholinguistics—we find that the focus of interest has shifted from the syntax and semantics of the utterance to its pragmatics. We are concerned with the speaker as he relates to his listener—this is the new perspective from which the traditional issues of these disciplines are being reviewed nowadays.