---
_id: '50009'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: <jats:p> In the past decades, the notion of voice in the theorizing and teaching
    of academic writing has been the subject of much debate and conceptual change,
    especially concerning its relation to writer identity. Many newer accounts of
    voice and identity in academic writing draw on the dialogical concept of voice
    by Bakhtin. However, some theoretical and methodological inconsistencies have
    surfaced in the adaptions of the concept. Working from a refinement of the dialogical
    notion of voice based on the concepts of polyphony and interiorization, this article
    presents a methodological approach for analyzing voice(s) in writing. The article
    presents material around the evolution of an early-career researcher’s dissertation
    synopsis. The material is multilayered, including the writer’s text, transcripts
    from an interdisciplinary peer-feedback conversation with two colleagues, and
    a video-stimulated interview with the writer. Excerpts of the material were analyzed
    to trace the polyphony of interiorized voices that influenced the writing. This
    focus revealed the multivoicedness of academic texts as an effect of their history
    of coming into being. This article contributes to the question of voice and identity
    in academic writing from a dialogical psycholinguistic perspective by presenting
    a de-reifying notion of voice grounded in an understanding of writing as a polyphonic
    activity, which also feeds into the formation of a writer’s self. </jats:p>
author:
- first_name: Andrea
  full_name: Karsten, Andrea
  id: '53917'
  last_name: Karsten
  orcid: 0000-0003-0194-2000
citation:
  ama: 'Karsten A. Voices in Dialogue: Taking Polyphony in Academic Writing Seriously.
    <i>Written Communication</i>. 2024;41(1):6-36. doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/07410883231207104">10.1177/07410883231207104</a>'
  apa: 'Karsten, A. (2024). Voices in Dialogue: Taking Polyphony in Academic Writing
    Seriously. <i>Written Communication</i>, <i>41</i>(1), 6–36. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/07410883231207104">https://doi.org/10.1177/07410883231207104</a>'
  bibtex: '@article{Karsten_2024, title={Voices in Dialogue: Taking Polyphony in Academic
    Writing Seriously}, volume={41}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/07410883231207104">10.1177/07410883231207104</a>},
    number={1}, journal={Written Communication}, publisher={SAGE Publications}, author={Karsten,
    Andrea}, year={2024}, pages={6–36} }'
  chicago: 'Karsten, Andrea. “Voices in Dialogue: Taking Polyphony in Academic Writing
    Seriously.” <i>Written Communication</i> 41, no. 1 (2024): 6–36. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/07410883231207104">https://doi.org/10.1177/07410883231207104</a>.'
  ieee: 'A. Karsten, “Voices in Dialogue: Taking Polyphony in Academic Writing Seriously,”
    <i>Written Communication</i>, vol. 41, no. 1, pp. 6–36, 2024, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/07410883231207104">10.1177/07410883231207104</a>.'
  mla: 'Karsten, Andrea. “Voices in Dialogue: Taking Polyphony in Academic Writing
    Seriously.” <i>Written Communication</i>, vol. 41, no. 1, SAGE Publications, 2024,
    pp. 6–36, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1177/07410883231207104">10.1177/07410883231207104</a>.'
  short: A. Karsten, Written Communication 41 (2024) 6–36.
date_created: 2023-12-21T08:15:03Z
date_updated: 2025-09-10T10:49:58Z
doi: 10.1177/07410883231207104
intvolume: '        41'
issue: '1'
keyword:
- Literature and Literary Theory
- Communication
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
oa: '1'
page: 6-36
project:
- _id: '120'
  name: 'TRR 318 - RTG: TRR 318 - Project Area RTG - Integriertes Graduiertenkolleg'
publication: Written Communication
publication_identifier:
  issn:
  - 0741-0883
  - 1552-8472
publication_status: published
publisher: SAGE Publications
status: public
title: 'Voices in Dialogue: Taking Polyphony in Academic Writing Seriously'
type: journal_article
user_id: '53917'
volume: 41
year: '2024'
...