The Importance Of Interdisciplinary Aspect Of Stylistics As A Bridge. Between Language And Literature

• Author: Flutura Boci
• Pages: 79-87

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Vol. 4 No.1

May, 2018

Balkan Journal of Interdisciplinary Research

IIPCCL Publishing, Graz-Austria

ISSN 2410-759X

Acces online at www.iipccl.org

TheImportanceOfInterdisciplinaryAspectOfStylisticsAsABridge

BetweenLanguageAndLiterature

FluturaBoci

Stylisticsandliteratureabrieftheoreticlook

TheAngloAmericaninuencingtheoriesgaveshapetostylistics

Therehave beensome signicantinuences onstylisticsthathaveshapeditalong

years. Since the classical period and continuously, scholars have been interested in

linkinglanguagemodelsintextandthewaytextiscommunicatedGreekrhetorical

scholarsforexamplewereparticularlyinterestedinthetropesandtoolsusedbythe

speakerstobuildconvincingargumentsMostoftheearlythcenturystudieswere

relatedtogrammarorrhetoricanalysisorweregeneralliteraturestudies According

to Niaz stylistics as semiautonomous discipline is a th century phenomenon

and it is due to the development of historical linguistics in the second half of the

thcenturytherstfeaturesofstylisticsappearedtherootsofmodernstylistics

arefoundinthe work of ChBally which particularlyinuencedshapingliterary

stylisticsandLSpitzer

Therearetwomovementsofthetwentiethcenturythatwillleavetracesandchange

the direction of stylistics once and for all: Russian Formalism and Structuralism of the

PragueSchoolwithrepresentativesViktorShklovskyandBorisTomashevskyforthe

rstandJanMukarovskyandWilhemMathesiusforthelaer

Structuralists tend to treat literary texts as the basic unit of analysis. For them, the time

thewriterlivedthehistoricalbackgroundas wellasotherextracurricularelements

arenotimportantTheypreferthattextanalysisbelinkedtothelanguagestructure

The group consisted of linguists literary critics and psychologists and created

whatwouldsoonturnintoahighlyinuentialaspectofstylisticsforegrounding2

theoryin whichsometexts have more eect onthereaderthan others related to

the interpretation, making them more prominent from the psychological point of

viewItisatoolthatservestoaractaentioninaliterarytextthroughrepetition

emphasisunusualphrasessyntacticinversionsandsoonIn away itcanbesaid

thattheformalistsandstructuralistsweretherststylistscholarsTheirworkwasnot

immediatelyacclaimedintheWestduetotheRussianRevolutionofItbecame

particularlypopularaerJakobsonsrelocationtotheUS

RomanJakobson whomovedfromMoscowto Praguein isa scholarwhose

worklinksthetwoabovementionedmovementsManyofthemain ideasof these

twoschoolsarereectedinmodernstylisticssuchasthepoeticfunctiondiscussed

belowJakobsonbelievedthatliterarylecturesdierfromallothertypesbecauseof

themessage Apoem isabout yourselfformimage literarymeaningbefore itis

aboutthepoetreaderortheworldIntheClosingstatementLinguisticsandPoetics

1 

2 https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-foregrounding-1690802    

      



contributes to the total meaning.