Complete the vocabulary of ideological criticism.
Voloshinov calls the sign ______, capable of carrying opposed evaluations, and therefore an arena of struggle. Macherey directs the critic to a text's ______. Williams names the three forces of any moment as dominant, ______ and ______.
Word bank: multiaccentual · silences · residual · emergent · transparent · sources
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- The first term explains how one word can serve two opposed politics.
- Macherey's object is what the text cannot say.
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Voloshinov calls the sign multiaccentual, capable of carrying opposed evaluations, and therefore an arena of struggle. Macherey directs the critic to a text's silences. Williams names the three forces of any moment as dominant, residual and emergent.
The three ideas fit together: if signs are contested, texts are sites of contest; if texts are sites of contest, their silences are structured rather than accidental; and if a moment holds residual and emergent forces at once, the contest has a history and a direction.
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