Semantics for Literary Languages
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5090621 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Kuhns (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1972 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 91 |
| Publication date | 1972-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Literary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-6087 • E-ISSN: 1080-661X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/468494 |
| OpenAlex | W2322381726 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
rrERARY LANGUAGES are created by the writer out of the language; what we know of a particular language-its syntactic and semantic rules, its vocabulary, its peculiar idioms --is relevant, therefore, to a theory of meaning for languages. The distinction between and languages, while crude and imprecise, useful to us at this stage of our inquiry because problems of meaning have been dealt with so variously where ordinary everyday language concerned (what referred to here as natural language), and where a special organization into texts concerned (what referred to here as literary language). Yet we assume that certain basic semantic concepts will apply to both modes of organization of languages. Issues of meaning in both and languages are clarified by the semantic distinction, formulated by Tarski, between language and metalanguage. The central idea this distinction offers us that no language, however rich, can satisfactorily speak about the meaning and truth of its sentences. In order to do that we employ a language whose resources are richer than the language talked about, at least in one respect: that in the metalanguage we can use expressions in quotation marks to refer to elements of the first language, and attribute predicates such as is true and is meaningful to the sentences of the first language. In the analysis of languages it often the case that the language functions as a metalanguage. And in addition there a variety of defined technical languages which we use to talk about language. There are the languages of criticism (including the traditional subject of rhetoric), the languages of other works which take on the function of metalanguages since they are used to say things which language only shows, and the language of a text itself put between quotation marks
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,02 |
| Citation span | 1983 - 1983 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |