Part of "Explorations in Authentic Linguistics" Symposium
with David Crystal and Manfred Görlach
Hamburg University, February 22-24,2001

Department of British and American Studies

Language BLANK Literature: from Conjunction to Preposition

The study of language and the study of Iiterature have long been separated and are often treated as if they were antagonistic domains, both in mother- tongue and in foreign-language teaching .

This talk argues for the integration of the two domains, by focusing on the notion of linguistic creativity which underlies both, and providing performance illustrations from several literary genres.