Nils Erik Enkvist

Jan-Ola Östman & Tuija Virtanen
University of Helsinki | Åbo Akademi University
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Nils Erik Enkvist (1925–2009) is best known as one of the forerunners in linguistic stylistics and in text linguistics, fields of research which he more or less single-handedly introduced to students of language and literature in the Nordic countries in the 1960s (stylistics), and in the early 1970s (text linguistics). His close contacts with text linguists in Eastern Europe also made him an important instrument in making contemporary text linguists in Czechoslovakia and in East Germany better known world-wide. In his home country Finland as well as to a large extent also in the other Nordic countries he soon became the core representative of a linguistics that went “beyond the sentence”.

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