Is It Possible to Study Language Sciences without Taking into Account the Science of Literature and Vice Versa? Cover Image

Se poate face știință a limbii fără a ține seamă de știința literaturii și invers?
Is It Possible to Study Language Sciences without Taking into Account the Science of Literature and Vice Versa?

Author(s): Daiana Felecan
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Semantics
Published by: Editura U. T. Press
Keywords: language; literature; surface structure; deep structure; meaning;

Summary/Abstract: Language and literature research are only formally two different concerns. In fact, they depend on each other. A literary analysis will never be complete unless it contains "traces" of linguistic research, while a meaningful linguistic interpretation will only be achieved by using observations from the sphere of literary commentary. We call into question a so-called investigation that claims to be of literary criticism if it is limited to the specific tools of the discipline in question omitting the lexical-grammatical arguments that support and justify the demonstration. We believe that any statement related to a literary text must find support in a fact of language. In the same way, the grammatical research of the aesthetic sign cannot exclude considerations from the literary field to confirm the option for a specific lexical meaning, morphological value or syntactic function. The two branches of humanistic science are indispensable to each other, and their combination will lead to identifying the complete meaning of a text.In the present article, we will try to demonstrate how the specific tools of each of the before-mentioned disciplines, put at the service of the same discourse, save the material of cognitive insufficiency and generate a complex perspective on the analysed discourse. We will use linguistic, lexical-grammatical and semantic terminology.

  • Issue Year: XXXI/2022
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 67-72
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Romanian