Po co językoznawstwu badania nad literaturą?
Why should linguists study literature?

Summary/Abstract: The paper provides an overview of attitudes (stated explicitly or implied) that are present in the works of Polish linguists who deal with literary studies. The analysis of their meta-scientific statements, research goals and assumptions, is a starting point for the delineation of the functions that literary studies serve within theoretical linguistics. The focus of the paper is a discussion of the five basic uses of literary linguistics that were outlined in the researched material. They are as follows: 1) literature provides data for linguistic research; 2) literature can illustrate an ideal or, at least, representative use of language; 3) literature reveals phenomena that are barely visible or completely obliterated in the standard variety of language; 4) literature is a source of methodological inspiration for the knowledge about language; 5) literature allows us to get acquainted with the most unusual, creative users of the language.

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