论述题~What is the relationship between language and literature?论文一部分

论述题~What is the relationship between language and literature?论文一部分
论述题~What is the relationship between language and literature?
论文一部分

论述题~What is the relationship between language and literature?论文一部分
文学主要是依靠语言这一工具来传播的.

Literature and language are the same thing - the same kinds of entities structuralists agree that literature has a special relationship with language and then by the claim that disparities between the...

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Literature and language are the same thing - the same kinds of entities structuralists agree that literature has a special relationship with language and then by the claim that disparities between the ‘units of structure’ can be bridged by ‘certain elementary linguistic analogies.’More importantly, however, the shift of focus to the idea of ‘structure’ obscures the key issue at stake. For even if two entities had identical structures this would not rule out the possibility that they might differ in fundamental ways. Whatever might be true about the ‘structures’ of language and literature, they may still be quite different kinds of entities, and concepts used to describe and analyse the one might still be of quite minor and marginal value when applied to the other. Casting about for an accommodation between the ‘units of structure’ of literature and language deflects attention from the key question of whether there are in fact any substantial areas of common ground between the two. Many literary theorists, including some of the more influential, discuss literature in terms of concepts derived from language theory without first asking this threshold question of whether it is a legitimate step to take. This does not of course necessarily mean that the step is illegitimate; it does, however, reveal a serious weakness in the quality of the argumentation, and leaves a major question mark hanging over an issue of fundamental importance.

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