The recent Paulo Bezerra’s translation of Bakhtin’s essay Speech genres (1952-1953) has shed new light on Bakhtin’s dialogic theory. Although the translator has already translated this essay that integrates collection Aesthetics of verbal creation (2003), to pull it apart from the collection to relaunch it along with The text in linguistics, in philology and other human sciences (1959- 1961), he seeks to illuminate some aspects little emphasized in the old translation.