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Historical Periods as Problematics: Socio-linguistic Situations, Sociolects and Discourses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 April 2013

Peter V. Zima
Peter V. Zima*
Affiliation:
University of Klagenfurt, Universitätsstraße 65-67, A-9020 KLAGENFURT, Austria. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

The author attempts a redefinition of literary epochs or periods as problematics, i.e. as constellations of problems to which individuals and groups react in many different ways. In this respect he differs from those who construct literary periods as world visions, ideologies, aesthetics or stylistics. He defines problematics from a sociosemiotic point of view: as socio-linguistic situations in which competing collective languages (sociolects) and discourses react critically and polemically to one another.

Type
Focus: Writing a History of European Literature as Part of a World History of Literature
Information
European Review , Volume 21 , Issue 2 , May 2013 , pp. 292 - 299
Copyright
Copyright © Academia Europaea 2013

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