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• Μπαμπινιώτης, Γεώργιος

The main purpose of this paper is to discuss the functions pertaining to a literary text and their universal application. Jakobson's well known model of the functions of language in verbal communication ("Linguistics and poetics", 1960) is critically reexamined and a modified model to meet the needs of literary text is tentatively proposed. Of all functions the per-textual function -or else the "poetic" (Jakobson 1960) or "metasemiotic" (Akhmanova 1976\ function- is discussed in some detail. This is the par excellence literary function, which focuses on the linguistic structure of the message. The constituents of this function are: (i) selections and/or deviations from the conventional code of a natural language, (ii) establishment of syntagmatic combinations, based mainly on (iii) linguistic parallelism, constructions of "equivalences" (Jakobson) of similar or contrastive linguistic entities on all levels. These are universal constituents which differ typologically among natural languages.

• Languages and Literature

• Γλωσσολογία

Περιέχει σημειώσεις και βιβλιογραφία, The paper was read at the 15th Annual Meeting of "Societas Linguistica Europaea" in Athens (September 1982). It is the result of a research, supported by "Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst" which enabled my work in German universities during summer of 1982. My thanks to DAAD for this support are expressed from this place too. An enlarged version of this paper is contained in my book "Γλωσσολογία και Λογοτεχνία. Από την τεχνική στην τέχνη του λόγου”, (Linguistics and Literature. Speech techniques and art of speech) to appear in 1984.