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Poetic Function of Language in Political Time and Space: Language, Linguistics and Political Studies

By Vassil Hr. Anastassov.

Published by The International Journal of the Humanities

It is argued in this paper that the poetic function of language as a combination of the expressive and the metalingual functions of language (the ability of ‘Homo Loquens’ to express emotion as intertwined with the ability to create ‘new language’, by ‘playing’ with explicit knowledge about it) helps to locate the ‘ego’ of ‘Homo Loquens’ in the actual present (time) and the actual social environment (space). The matching of the two functions explains what ties up individual ‘egos’ in a language identity, on a deictic ‘here and now’ socio-political principle within the current pragmatic context.

International Journal of the Humanities, Volume 6, Issue 5, pp.31-38. Article: Print (Spiral Bound). Article: Electronic (PDF File; 581.050KB).

Dr. Vassil Hr. Anastassov

Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Art and Science, Fatih University, Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey