inhabit

v. occupy, live in, dwell in, reside in; populate

Inhabit may refer to:Inhabit (album), an album by Living SacrificeInhabited (group), a rock group
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Verb
1. make one's home or live in; "She resides officially in Iceland"; "I live in a 200-year old house"; "These people inhabited all the islands that are now deserted"; "The plains are sparsely populated"
(synonym) dwell, shack, reside, live, people, populate, domicile, domiciliate
(hypernym) be
(hyponym) neighbor, neighbour
(derivation) inhabitancy, inhabitation, habitation
2. be present in; be inside of
(synonym) occupy
(hypernym) be
(hyponym) tenant
(derivation) inhabitancy, inhabitation, habitation

(v. t.)
To live or dwell in; to occupy, as a place of settled residence; as, wild beasts inhabit the forest; men inhabit cities and houses.
  

(v. i.)
To have residence in a place; to dwell; to live; to abide.
  

Bakhtin used this term to talk about the way in which our utterances are based on (or are responses to) others to whom we respond.  So, when someone says, out of the blue, "Life is hard," it can be presumed that this is a response to someone else (who inhabits our utterances) who said this (and the utterance simply affirms it), who denies this (and the denies it), and so forth.