![]() ![]() ![]() Style and Textual FunctionĮarly work in prose style related syntactic patterning to the author's world-view, and, as speech-act theory developed, to the social conventions surrounding literary 'utterances.' The world-view of Ernest Hemingway, action-oriented, stoic, is depicted in the unadorned, unmodified, verb-centered syntax of his prose. Still, the linguistic revolution of the last four decades has produced substantial work by linguists in prose style, narrative, metrics, poetic syntax, and metaphor. This unity of concerns has lapsed as linguistics has become independent and linguistic training for literary scholars has been virtually eliminated. Research on the language of literature has a long tradition under the rubric of philology. ![]()
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