Structuralist Poetics : Structuralism, Linguist... Apr 2026

If linguistics studies the system of language ( langue ), then a "Poetics" should study the system of literature. 2. "Literary Competence": How You Learned to Read

Why do you know that a "dark and stormy night" in a novel suggests something bad is coming, but the same sentence in a weather report is just a fact? Structuralist poetics : structuralism, linguist...

Langue is the abstract system of rules (Grammar), while parole is the actual speaking we do. If linguistics studies the system of language (