ABSTRACT
Basic to the textual politics of any text are the discourse patterns that, from somebody’s point of view, stand opposed to it. There are very few matters in a complex and diverse society about which there is only one discourse. Each different social or political point of view, each school of thought constructs its own discourse formation; it speaks of the matter in its own way. Although many discourse formations try to seem autonomous and self-sufficient, attempting to create the ideologically functional impression that they are simply presenting their viewpoint in the most natural way possible, it is always possible to detect in them what Bakhtin called their implicit dialogue with other points of view, other discourses on the same subject.
