This volume demonstrates how Bakhtin's theory of dialogic meaning--and its subsequent elaborations--have influenced a wide range of critical discourses. Contributors include Michael Holquist, Jerome J. McGann, John Searle, Deborah Tannen, Gary Saul Morson, Caryl Emerson, Shirley Brice Heath, Don H. Bialostosky, Paul Friedrich, Timothy Austin, John Farrell, Rachel May, and Michael Macovski.