Grammar and Literature

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ID23692187
AuthorsNina Nørgaard (0000-0002-8760-1495, ELTE Research Centre for the Humanities, corresponding author)
Year2025
Pages1-7
Publication date2025-05-26
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueEncyclopedia of Applied Linguistics (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/9781405198431.wbeal0468.pub2
OpenAlexW4410749498
ISBN9781405198431
LanguageEN
References cited25

Literature is language. Through language, literary texts construct characters, settings, plots, experiences, feelings, and ideas. Therefore, linguistic knowledge may help the literary critic understand and describe how meaning is created by linguistic means in literary texts. This entry traces the interest in and practices of studying the grammar of literature and other types of text in the academic field of stylistics. Stylisticians employ linguistic theory and methodology for analysis which is consequently based firmly on the actual wording of the text. The entry shows how developments in modern linguistics have informed stylistics work, which, in turn, has grown into a varied landscape of specialized subbranches such as functional stylistics, cognitive stylistics, corpus stylistics, and multimodal stylistics.

Applied linguistics · Cognition · Cognitive linguistics · Construct (python library) · Epistemology · Feeling · Grammar · Linguistics · Meaning (existential) · Sociology · Stylistics · Systemic functional grammar · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology · Translation Studies and Practices

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