This document discusses heteroglossia, or competing voices, and provides resources for analyzing affect and perspectives in text. It defines heteroglossia as the juxtaposition of different social perspectives in a single text. An online tool is presented for testing the positive or negative affect of text. Another online resource allows mapping words associated with a keyword. The document advises looking at pronouns, parallel perspectives, and silent voices to explore competing voices in a text. It also references a workshop on how expression organizes experience.

1. M E M O R Y , L A N G U A G E A N D E M O T I O N
Heteroglossia
[competing voices]
Barney Angliss

2. Unforgettable…
Who had a hit with… ?
That’s what you are

3. Room up top?
You are driving a bus. At the start of your journey, there are 6
people on the bus: Fred, Bert, Sam, Jane, Bertha and Orla. At
the first stop, Fred and Bert get off while Susan and John get
on. At the second stop Bertha gets off and Callum gets on. At
the last stop everyone gets off. What is the name of the bus
driver?
2 points

4. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address
We shall pay any price,
bear any burden,
meet any hardship,
support any friend,
oppose any foe,
to assure the survival
and success of liberty.

5. Rosie’s Walk by Pat Hutchins

6. #hannahssweets (Edexcel GCSE Maths 2015)
There are n sweets in a bag. 6 of the sweets are orange. The rest of the sweets are yellow.
Hannah takes a random sweet from the bag. She eats the sweet.
Hannah then takes at random another sweet from the bag. She eats the sweet.
The probability that Hannah eats two orange sweets is 1/3.
Show that n² – n – 90 = 0.
6/n x 5/n-1 = 1/3
6 x 5/n(n-1) = 30/(n2 – n) = 1/3
Or 90/(n2 – n) = 1
So (n2 – n) = 90
And n2 – n – 90 = 0

7. The Clown Punk (AQA GCSE English 2015)
Driving home through the shonky side of town,
three times out of ten you’ll see the town clown,
like a basket of washing that got up
and walked, towing a dog on a rope. But
Don’t laugh: every pixel of that man’s skin
is shot through with indelible ink;
as he steps out at the traffic lights,
think what he’ll look like in thirty years’ time -
The deflated face and shrunken scalp
still daubed with the sad tattoos of high punk.
You kids in the back seat who wince and scream
when he slathers his daft mush on the windscreen,
Remember the clown punk with his dyed brain,
then picture windscreen wipers, and let it rain.
Simon Armitage

8. The Clown Punk by Simon Armitage
Driving home through the shonky side of town,
three times out of ten you’ll see the town clown,
like a basket of washing that got up
and walked, towing a dog on a rope. But
Don’t laugh: every pixel of that man’s skin
is shot through with indelible ink;
as he steps out at the traffic lights,
think what he’ll look like in thirty years’ time -
The deflated face and shrunken scalp
still daubed with the sad tattoos of high punk.
You kids in the back seat who wince and scream
when he slathers his daft mush on the windscreen,
Remember the clown punk with his dyed brain,
then picture windscreen wipers, and let it rain.

9. www.visualthesaurus.com

10. Heteroglossia [competing voices]
The juxtaposition of competing voices, social
personae or perspectives, in a single text,
described by Mikhail Bakhtin.

11. Heteroglossia [competing voices]
It is not experience that organises expression, but
the other way around – expression organises
experience. Expression is what first gives
experience its form and specificity of direction…
Valentin Volosinov, 1973

12. Sir Tim Hunt, Nobel Laureate
Talking about women in the lab he said “three
things happen when they are in the lab: you
fall in love with them, they fall in love with
you, and when you criticise them they cry.”

13. #distractinglysexy

14. Reading affect
http://www.nactem.ac.uk/opminpackage/opinion_analysis

15. Reading affect in retail
http://www.nactem.ac.uk/opminpackage/opinion_analysis
 Profits in the retail division continue to fall although
online sales have increased.
 Profits in the retail division continue to fall. Online
sales have increased.
 Profits in the retail division continue to fall. Online
sales have improved.

16. Heteroglossia [competing voices]
HETEROGLOSSIA
- the juxtaposition of competing voices, social personae or perspectives,
in a single text, described by Mikhail Bakhtin.
To test the positive / negative affect of text, use: http://www.nactem.ac.uk/opminpackage/opinion_analysis
To display a map of nouns, verbs, and adjectives associated with any key word in your subject, use:
www.visualthesaurus.com
To explore the competing voices or perspectives in a text, look for:
 pronouns (we, you, they)
 parallel perspectives
 silent voices
To learn more about how expression organises our experience, book up for my workshop at Reading College:
Barney Angliss