Marxism and the Philosphy of Language The immediate social situation and the broader social milieu wholly

determine and determine from within, so to speak the structure of an utterance 6 Volosinov felt that Freuds attention to the role of language in psychoanalysis was a major asset, while, at the same time, fundamentally disagreeing with the ideological aspects of Freudiansim. Utterance, as we know, is constructed between two socially organied persons, and in the absence of a real addressee, an addresse is presupposed in the person so to speak, of a normal representative of the social group to which the speaker belongs 85 Even though we sometimes have pretensions to experiencing and saying things urbi et orbi, actually, of course, we invision this world at large though the prism of the concrete social milieu surrounding us. In the majority of cases, we presuppose a certain typical and stabilized social purview toward which the ideological creativity of our own social group and time is oriented 86 Orientation of the word toward the addresse has an extremely high significance. Inpoint of fact, word is a two-sided act. It is determined equally by whose word it is and for whom it is meant. As word, it is precisely the product of the reciprocal relationship between speaker and listener, addresser and addressee A word is territory shared by both addresser and addressee, by the speaker and his interlocutor The immediate social situation and its immediate social participants determine the occasional form and style of an utterance. The deeper layers of its structure are determined by more sustained and more basic social connections with which the speaker is in contact