A part outside the whole? (To Anton Zimmerling's article “Really: syntactics without semiotics?”)
... understanding of signs, while unilateral conceptions of signs are often overlooked. Linguistics is typically confined to the study of language itself, and the treatment of linguistics concerning speech (text) is often seen as a concealed branch of philology. Moreover, it remains unclear whether the distinction between language and speech pertains to linguistics or philology. This ambiguity extends to the status of linguistic pragmatics.
To address this issue constructively, it is useful ...
The history of verse studies and formalism
The core idea of formalism is that literature is not merely a function of psychology or social theory and cannot be explained using the tools of these sciences. One could say that poetics is almost the only philological subdiscipline that has managed to preserve the fundamental idea of formalism, explaining poetic facts in terms of poetics itself, rather than through economic, sociological, or psychological means. This is precisely the approach taken by ...
