Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Preface IX
4. LINGUISTICS, LITERARY ANALYSIS, AND LITERARY TRANSLATION
5. 1. Introduction 3
6. 2. System, norm, usage 7
7. 3. Literature, norm, usage, and evolution 15
8. 4. Cost and yield 22
9. 5. Formal identity and formal opposition: the linguistic sign 29
10. 6. Field models, universals, and language-bound world-view 35
11. 7. Arbitrariness, convention, and motivation 41
12. 8. A stumbling-block in semantics: discreteness and gradual transition 46
13. 9. Intentionality and relevance 52
14. 10. Terminological confusion 59
15. 11. Short of denotation and beyond it 65
16. 12. What's in a name? 72
17. 13. Linguistics and literary analysis: a happy alliance? 82
18. 14. Linguists and literary texts 89
19. 15. Linguistics and translation 96
20. 16. Various options 103
21. 17. Foreign languages and dialects 112
22. 18. Answerable and unanswerable questions 120
23. Notes 125
24. References 155
25. Author Index 169
26. Subject Index 173