Abstract
This work aims to show the constituent elements of Bakhtin's concept of polyphony in the novel Crime and Punishment written by the Russian author Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. Therefore we use both the theoretical tools of the discursive semiotics proposed by Greimas (2008) and the tensive semiotics proposed by Zilberberg (2006a, 2006b). We analyze what, why, and how the text says, cons…