The Other Way Round

We have become accustomed to linguists examining literature as language, to their looking at a novel or a poem as a language text. Less attention, too little I would say, has been given to looking at matters the other way round, that is, to looking at language as literature. This is of course, in very general terms, part of the subject matter of the discipline of literary criticism, but the approach I wish to take is not, at this level, a critical one. Nor do I wish to plunge into the discussion about the desirability or usefulness of using a literature text for teaching language, important as the sensitive and selective use of such a method can be. I

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