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<div>At 10:58 AM -0400 4/25/01, susan wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">Can any of
you help with a definition of Bakhtin's "ventriloqution"
and where he first introduces the term and defines it? I have two of
his books as well as a bunch of Bakhtin papers and, although the word
pops up now and again, I cannot, for the life of me, find its
original appearance in his texts.</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">Thank you
very much,</font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">Susan
Gilbert</font></blockquote>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="-1">I'm interested in the
spelling. Is it really rendered as "ventriloqution"
and not "-cution" in translations of Bakhtin? This
doesn't seem possible to me, given the normal rules of English
orthography. "qu" is elsewhere invariably followed by
a vowel or semivowel (as in "ventriloquy",
"ventriloquist"). Cf., for example,
"eloquent" vs. "elocution". Exceptions are
always, to my knowledge, from the commercial realm or otherwise
self-conscious innovations ("qube",
"qute"). </font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial" size="-1">larry</font></div>
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