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French
Voice is, in the French understanding, primarily the actual physical voice of an individual, the mode of vocal production. But this term does also appear in multiple discussions about enunciative polyphony and dialogic heterogeneity: the “multivocal word” of Bakhtin. The term “voice” is also relevant to French discussions based in narratology, in particular as related to questions of the distinction between the voice of the author and the voice of the narrator.
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English
The term “voice” is generally linked to expressivist perspectives in the United States, but also to questions of style and individual emphasis: a student must find his or her voice, make this voice heard in his or her text, a voice constructed through his or her history. Texts with recognizable voices are often set in opposition to texts that are too dry or mechanical, too “academic.” This perspective is a subject of debate among scholars in composition theory, but is frequently evoked among composition teachers.
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