The transition from affective to linguistic meaning
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from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar
chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...
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عنوان ژورنال: First Language
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0142-7237,1740-2344
DOI: 10.1177/014272370102106302