Language and Literature

Question 1

What is stylistics?

Answer 1

Applying techniques from modern linguistics to texts

Question 2

Is there a literary language?

Answer 2

Chomsky- no it’s a semantic gap

Writing style similar to advertising

Question 3

Stylistics background

Answer 3

Russian formalism

Prague school of structuralism

Question 4

Jakobsens poetic function?

Answer 4

Literary discourse is a different function of language, it’s special