Publications

Publication details [#7695]

Posner, Roland. 1979. Poetic communication versus literary language, or: The linguistic fallacy in poetics. In Chatman, Seymour, Umberto Eco and Jean-Marie Klinkenberg, eds. A semiotic landscape. Proceedings of the first congress of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, Milan, June 1974. Mouton. pp. 689–697.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

context dependence | culture | literary language | poetic language

Annotation

Deciding whether a given communication has a poetic function is said to depend on situational context, the actions in which it is involved, and cultural background.