ABSTRACT
This text aims to reflect on some aspects of the relationship between language and literature, linguistic studies and literary studies. More specifically, it focuses on the means by which this relationship is present in Bakhtin's thought, being directly connected to issues related to dialogue and dialogism, which traverse and single out the works of the Bakhtin Circle. In this train of thought, it is possible to testify that this relationship between language and literature is discussed, explored and problematized not solely in the works explicitly signed by Mikhail Bakhtin, but also in the ones whose authorship is disputed, for they clarify the way the other members of the Circle, especially Valentin Voloshinov and Pavel Medvedev, conceive this relationship and contribute to make it fundamental to the understanding of language and to the development of concepts, notions, and categories that make language study possible.
KEYWORDS:
Works of the Bakhtin Circle; Linguistic Studies and Literary Studies; Language and Literature; Dialogue; Dialogism