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The Twenty-Seven Lenses

6. Aesthetic-linguistic

Read how this lens works

Bakhtin · Eckert · Labov · Lakoff-Johnson

The readings follow the same through-line order used throughout the system, making it possible to compare what this lens changes from one idea to the next.

3. Calibration to the specific other, rather than one imposed register

Bakhtin’s heteroglossia, Eckert’s indexical sociolinguistic features.

4. The same intellectual material redeployed across registers

Heteroglossic-unity-with-substantial-coherence.

9. Warmth and firmness as a single move

Compressed register that holds two registers simultaneously.