Is literary language a development of ordinary language?
Fabb, Nigel (2010) Is literary language a development of ordinary language? Lingua, 120 (5). pp. 1219-1232. ISSN 0024-3841 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2009.07.007)
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Abstract
Contemporary literary linguistics is guided by the 'Development Hypothesis' which says that literary language is formed and regulated by developing only the elements, rules and constraints of ordinary language. Six ways of differentiating literary language from ordinary language are tested against the Development Hypothesis, as are various kinds of superadded constraint including metre, rhyme and alliteration and parallelism. Literary language differs formally, but is unlikely to differ semantically from ordinary language. The article concludes by asking why the Development Hypothesis might hold.
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Fabb, Nigel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4820-7612;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 18457 Dates: DateEventMay 2010PublishedSubjects: Language and Literature > Philology. Linguistics Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Humanities > English Depositing user: Mrs Tereza McLaughlin-Vanova Date deposited: 09 Apr 2010 13:23 Last modified: 18 Oct 2024 00:20 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/18457