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Collaborative voice

Device
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

A speaker constructed from multiple contributors or perspectives

Detailed Definition
Collaborative voice emerges when a poem integrates multiple perspectives, registers, or discourses into a composite utterance that resists singular authorship; it foregrounds dialogue, intertextuality, or communal expression, challenging the myth of the isolated poetic “I” through polyvocality.
Example
Example in poetry:
Collaborative voice: A poem blending multiple speakers or perspectives—e.g., in Claudia Rankine’s “Citizen,” the “you” shifts between reader, speaker, and society, creating a collective address.
Additional Notes
Collaborative voice merges multiple authorial or character perspectives into a shared utterance; challenges notions of singular poetic identity.
Also Known As
Shared voice collective speaker multiple-author persona collaborative narrator
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