POLYPHONY AND DISCOURSE VARIATIONS IN CONTEMPORARY IRAQI STORY

This research aims to reveal the image of language in the contemporary Iraqi story through the dialogue mechanisms represented by: stylization, hybridization, and parody. The research sheds light on the verbal and textual interactions with language and style to demonstrate the textual dialogue and its external context. The Iraqi writers' use of phonemic pluralism and the dialogue mechanisms in the storytelling reflects the desire to uncover the interrelations of a dialogic nature in the language, to find out the psychological, social and contextual dimensions. This view shows that multilingualism leads to textual comprehensiveness by presenting the one truth from point of views.

This research seeks to uncover the various effective voices in polyphonic discourses, according to Mikhail Bakhtin's (1895-1975) theory of dialogue and polyphony, and the theory of Oswald Ducrot (1984) in linguistic polyphony. Both theories seek to distinguish that leads to discourse beings in the discourse that interact with each other represented in: speaking subject, verbal subject, and topic, in addition to context and point of views.