Reference:
Review Excerpts 'Stylistics and the philosophy of discourse indeed confront a
dilemma: either to acknowledge tha novel (and consequently all artistic
prose tending in that direction) an unartistic or quasi-artistic genre, or to
radically reconsider that conception of poetic discourse in which
traditional stylistics is grounded and which determines all its categories'
(665).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | conception |
discourse |
genre |
philosophy |
'Once rhetorical discourse is brought into the study with all its living
diversity, it cannot fail to have a deeply revolutionizing influence on
linguistics and on the philosophy of language. It is precisely those
aspects of any discourse (the internally dialogic quality of discourse, and
the phenomena related to it), not yet sufficiently taken into account and
fathomed in all the enormous weight they carry in the life of language,
that are revealed with great external precision in rhetorical forms,
provided a correct and unprejudiced approach to those forms is used.
Such is the general methodological and heuristic significance of
rhetorical forms for linguistics and for the philosophy of language'
(666).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | correct | discourse |
heuristic |
influence |
language |
linguistics |
philosophy |
quality |
significance |
study |
'The novel is an artistic genre. Novelistic discourse is poetic
discourse, but one that does not fit within the frame provided by the
concept of poetic discourse as it now exists. The concept has certain
underlying presuppositions that limit it' (666).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | concept |
discourse |
frame |
genre |
'A common unitary language is a system of linguistic norms. But
these norms do not constitute an abstract imperative; they are rather the
generative forces of linguistic life, forces that struggle to overcome the
heteroglossia of language, forces that unite and centralize
verbal-ideological thought... What we have in mind here is not an
abstract linguistic minimum of a common language, in the sense of a
system of elementary forms (linguistic symbols) guaranteeing a minimum
level of comprehension in practical communication. We are taking
language not as a system of abstract grammatical categories, but rather
language conceived as ideologically saturated, language as a world
view, even as a concrete opinion, insuring a maximum of mutual
understanding in all spheres of ideological life. Thus a unitary language
gives expression to forces working toward concrete verbal and
ideological unification and centralization, which develop in vital
connection with the processes of sociopolitical and cultural centralization'
(667).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | abstract |
communication |
comprehension |
concrete |
expression |
heteroglossia |
language |
level |
mind |
system |
thought |
understanding |
verbal |
world |
'The centripetal forces of the life of language, embodied in a "unitary
language", operate in the midst of heteroglossia. At any give moment of
its evolution, language is stratified not only into linguistic dialects in the
strict sense of the word ... but also-- and for us this is the essential
point-- into languages that are socio-ideological: languages of social
groups, "professional" and "generic" languages, languages of
generations and so forth. From this point of view, literary language itself
is only one of these heteroglot languages-- and in its turn is also
stratified into languages... And this stratification and heteroglossia, once
realized, is not only a static invariant of linguistic life, but also what
insures its dynamics: stratification and heteroglossia widen and deepen
as long as language is alive and developing. Alongside the centripetal
forces, the centrifugal forces of language carry on their uninterupted
work; alongside verbal-ideological centralization and unification, the
uninterrupted processes of decentralization and disunification go
forward' (668).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | heteroglossia |
language |
literary |
stratification |
word |
'Every concrete utterance of a speaking subject serves as a point
where centrifugal as well as centripetal forces are brought to bear'
(668).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | concrete |
utterance |
'Heteroglossia, as organized in these low genres, was not merely
heteroglossia vis-·-vis the accepted literary language (in all its various
generic expressions), that is, vis-·-vis the linguistic center of the
verbal-ideological life of the nation and the epoch, but was a
heteroglossia consciously opposed to this literary language. It was
parodic, and aimed sharply and polemically against the official
languages of its given time. It was heteroglossia that had been
dialogized' (668).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | heteroglossia |
language |
literary |
nation |
'Linguistics, stylistics and the philosophy of language that were born
and shaped by the current of centralizing tendencies in the life of
language have ignored this dialogized heteroglossia, in which is
embodied the centrifugal forces in the life of language' (668).
Domains: Under construction |
Key Terms: | heteroglossia |
language |
linguistics |
philosophy |
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