Rethinking the Language of Literary Texts

Abstract

There has been an on-going debate for centuries on the relation between modern linguistics and literature, whether the two disciplines are far apart from each other or there is an interaction between them. There are many ways in which the theories of modern linguistics are being and might be used in the study of literature mainly literary text. Linguistics finds literature interesting for various reasons .For instance, in reading literary text, one might had different interpretations toward it. What one can notice is that linguistics provides EFL learners with tools that facilitate the description of literary works. Throughout this paper, we will focus on the use of linguistics as a means of studying literary texts and how the linguistically trained reader (EFL learner) will find that he could go much further into detail and also formalise his results to a higher degree when dealing with literary texts.