LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 14:7 July 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Linguistics and Literature: Points of Convergence

Mohammad Firoj Al Mamun Khan
Rizwana Mahbub Liana

Abstract

The study maps thoroughly how different concepts and theoretical aspects of linguistics are applied in literary criticism. Diverse linguistic features are analyzed in literary criticism to highlight how they are used differently by poets and writers from the way they are commonly used. Since the early 20th century, due to the influence of formalistic critical practice, it has been the common pursuits of the critics to enquire how special uses of linguistic elements contribute to achieve the literariness in a text. Further, it is interesting to note that that from the mid-20th century linguistic codes and conventions have been appropriated as the paradigm in a number of areas other than literature that, in its turn, led to the development of theories to account for different genres of literature, its narration and interpretation.

Introduction

According to H. G. Widdowson, the areas that the linguistics comprises are the nature of language, its sound system, design, scope, form, meaning, and its context. In other words, students of linguistics study phonology and phonetics, morphology, syntax, semantics, discourse analysis, and pragmatics. The relatively recent areas are psycholinguistics, socio-linguistics, functional linguistics, corpus linguistics. In addition, we have linguistics for descriptive purposes, for contrastive analysis, discourse analysis, error analysis, and for forensic linguistics. Students of linguistics study them to gain expertise in various fields of it and to use them in their professional fields. It is more so in case of students of applied linguistics.

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Mohammad Firoj Al Mamun Khan, B.A. (Honours) & M.A. (English Literature & Language)
Assistant Professor
Department of English
American International University-Bangladesh (AIUB)
Banani, Dhaka-1213
Bangladesh
firozkhan@aiub.edu

Rizwana Mahbub Liana, B.A. (Honours) & M.A. (Applied Linguistics)
Assistant Professor
Department of English
American International University-Bangladesh
Banani, Dhaka-1213
Bangladesh
liana@aiub.edu
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