Poetic Function Research Articles

Aesthetic Literacies in Digital Learning Ecologies: Tracing Aesthetic Tools and Functions in a Youth Literary Salon

Concerned with disinformation, fake news, and a posttruth era, literacy research on digital learning ecologies has focused on content of the texts that youth encounter but less explicitly on aesthetics—issues of form or the way a text is written. Drawing on critical sociocultural theories, this article examines youth aesthetic meaning-making with non-neutral digital texts. The data analyzed are part of a multiyear multimethod study of the aesthetic literacy practices of queer youth of color and allies. Data were collected during an online summer literary salon where youth discussed textual content alongside issues of aesthetic forms. Findings illustrate that youth drew on a broad range of aesthetic tools to achieve (1) a poetic function concerned with how aesthetic forms elicit figurative, connotative, and storied meanings; (2) a catalytic function concerned with how aesthetic forms persuade, manipulate, or encourage particular actions; and (3) an ideological function concerned with how aesthetic forms inscribe or contest social inequalities. These tools and functions, complicate previous understandings of disinformation, fake news, and critical reasoning in literacies research. This study suggests a critical sociocultural approach to aesthetics as territory for further scholarship across many areas of literacy research.

Didaculturation in Literature Class

This study aims to present a new concept (Didaculturation) based on the work of the author Formoso (2021), a specialist in the analysis of cultures. Formoso has proposed a notion (Coculturation) focused on the importance of the coexistence of different cultures, moving away from the separating theories and terms that are often used in plural societies. Our approach (Didaculturation) aims to take up this definition and apply it to didactics. We centre on teaching literature as a field of verbal and written expression, including narratives that often reflect social actions that must be explained in class under a cultural approach. It should be done in this way for an effective reception of the message and the positive coexistence between people. This is in addition to teaching the stylistic, aesthetic or poetic functions.

PRECEDENT NAMES AS TRANSMITTERS OF HISTORICAL AND COLLECTIVE MEMORY IN THE POEM “THE TIME IN BURSA” BY A. H. TANPINAR

This article explores the use of precedent names as carriers of historical and collective memory in A. H. Tanpınar's poem “The Time in Bursa.” Precedent names, being culturally significant proper nouns, evoke historical, cultural, and social connotations that resonate deeply within a collective consciousness. The study analyzes how these names serve as linguistic bridges between past and present, shaping a shared understanding of national identity and heritage in Tanpınar’s poetry. The analysis focuses on the poem's ability to transmit cultural memory through names associated with key historical events, figures, and places, thus linking personal memory with collective historical narratives. By exploring the poetic function of these precedent names, the article highlights Tanpınar’s contribution to preserving and enriching the cultural identity of Turkish society. Employing methods such as textual, intertextual, and historical-linguistic analysis, the research uncovers how Tanpınar’s use of precedent names fosters a dialogue between individual and national history, allowing readers to engage with the collective memory of their community. The study positions precedent names not merely as literary devices, but as pivotal elements in understanding the dynamics of memory and identity in Turkish poetry. This research aims to broaden the understanding of how names rooted in cultural and historical significance can function as powerful transmitters of collective memory, contributing to the formation of a cohesive national identity in literary texts.

Diskurspoetik

This discourse linguistic short paper focuses on the heuristic concept of discourse poetics within a discourse linguistic framework. The goal is to integrate poetological considerations related to the concept of poeticity into the context of linguistic discourse analysis. From this standpoint, it explores the concept of poetics of knowledge, emphasizing the correlation between the specifics of linguistic expression and the epistemic objects they may refer to. Building upon this, discourse poetics that functions as a discourse linguistic epistemology is characterized by its focus on the poetic function of language use corresponding to the category of poeticity as a linguistic marker within discourse. It is assumed that linguistic phenomena falling under this category, can be observed and interpreted transtextually, using corpus pragmatic and hermeneutic approaches. This is illustrated by examples taken from the analysis of music discourses based on a corpus of 13,499 contemporary music reviews, previously presented by the author.

A Contextual Analysis on Social Media Updates

This qualitative, corpus-based, and contextual analysis approach aimed to give and provide the linguistic features and functions in male and female social media updates. The purpose of this study was to help the students assess the posts of social media users and to find out if there are linguistic features or linguistic functions found in their social media updates. In this study, there were a total of sixty-two (62) corpora taken from both male and female social media updates that are categorized into five linguistic features, including the intensifiers, tag questions, questions on declarations, lexical hedges, empty adjectives and six linguistic functions including the referential function, poetic function, emotive function, conative function, phatic function and metalingual function. Results revealed that in social media updates of males and females, linguistic features and functions are found by contextualizing their posts in the adopted linguistic frame of analysis. Also, it helps future English students know the linguistic features and linguistic functions as their basis, using other platforms for them to be responsible for posting online. It serves as their point of reference for the students and English instructors to unearth the linguistic aspect in social media, particularly in males and females.

EXPLORING REGISTER VARIATION IN APPS AKULAKU: A SOCIOLINGUISTICS STUDY

The purpose of the research are (1) to identify the types of registers and (2) to describe the language functions used by the marketing community in Akulaku marketplace apps. This research uses qualitative methods to analyze data and use descriptive methods to explain the data. The object of this research is the written register terms found in Akulaku Marketplace apps. The theories used to classify the data are according to Halliday and Hasan's (1989) theory of register types and Jakobson's (1960) theory of language functions. According to this research, there are 90 data analyzed. The data is categorized into two types of registers, they are closed register 41 data (45,5%) and open register 49 data (54,5%). The functions of the register are referential function 14 data (15,5%), emotive function 20 data (22,2%), conative function 27 data (30%), phatic function 11 data (12,2%), poetic function 11 data or (12.2%) and metalingual function 7 data or (7,7%). This study is expected to increase knowledge of the types of registers and their functions used in marketplace buying and selling activities, while at the same time serving as a valuable resource for reference in education and, in addition, studies in linguistics, mainly in the subject of sociolinguistics.

THE WRITER'S SKILL IN IMAGE CREATION

In the article, the role of folklorism in the stories of Isajon Sultan in the art of the work, their poetic functions, the writer's skill in using folklore images and the possibilities of mythopoetic interpretation are highlighted.

The poetic function of the content in the inter- pretation of the female psyche

Adabiyotda shakl va mazmun masalasining muhimligi xususida adabiyotshunos olimlar bir nechta tadqiqot ishlarini olib borganlar. Bu borada turli xil qarashlar mavjud. Jahon adabiyotshunosligida bu masala-ga alohida yondashib, biri ikkinchisini mutlaqo taqozo etmaydi yoki biri ikkinchisisiz mustaqil mavjud bo'la oladi, degan fikrlar ilgari surilgan. Bu fikrlar o'z isbotini topmagan hamda bir guruh olimlar shaklsiz mazmun, mazmunsiz shakl mavjud bo'la olmaydi, degan qarashlarni ilgari suradilar. Shu bilan birga, o'zbek adabiyotshunos olimlari ham bu masalaga chuqur yondashib, o'z fikr-mulohazalarini bayon etadilar. Shulardan kelib chiqqan holda, maqolada o'zbek adabiyotining yirik vakillaridan biri Halima Xudoyberdiyeva she’rlarida shakl va mazmun masalasini o'rganish hamda ijodkor lirik kechinmalarini aniqlash masalasiga e'tibor qaratiladi.

Ästhetische Autonomie zwischen Ethik und Ästhetik

Ästhetische Autonomie zwischen Ethik und Ästhetik

Mimesis and Mythos in Aristotelian Arabic Poetics

Abstract The Aristotelian sense of mimesis (i.e., fictional representation of an evoked world through plot and characters) continues to shape modern views of literature. The medieval Arabic reception of the concept of mimesis and its closely related concept of mythos (fable, story, or plot) through Aristotle’s Poetics reveals a different conception of literature—one that this article argues is not representational but analogical. While Aristotle sees mythos/plot as forming the main vehicle through which mimesis manifests itself in poetry, mythos (khurāfa) according to the philosophers of the Islamic world was irrelevant for the poetic. This is because they understood mythos not as “plot” but as referring, on the one hand, to the fictionality and fantasticness of poetic metaphor, which they deemed inessential for the success of poetry; on the other hand, they understood mythos as “story,” in which case they relegated to it a rhetorical function of persuasion rather than a poetic function of make-believe. Fundamentally, in both the poetic and the rhetorical, mimesis was understood as the expression of the comparable, not the representation of the likeness of an evoked world. This exposes an Arabic conception of “mimesis” that reflects a literature that seeks comparisons and demands the inference of similarities from the reader.

Language Style Used by Peter Parker in the Spiderman Movie

This undergraduate thesis is entitled Language Style Used by Peter Parker in the “Spider-Man” Movie. This study focused on the language style particularly to identify and analyze the type language style and function of language in Peter Parker’s utterances. The object of this study is Peter Parker’s utterances in the “Spider-Man” movie. This study used observation and documentation methods with taking note technique in collecting data. The data was analyzed using descriptive qualitative methods, means the results are explaining descriptively. The results of the analysis are presented in informal method. This study used two theories; the theory of type of language style proposed by Joos and the theory of function of language proposed by Jakobson. Based on the theory, the type of language style in this study shows three types of language style. There are formal style, consultative style, and casual style. In this study, there are types of language style which is not found, namely frozen style and intimate style. These types of language style do not exist because in the movie, the situations and Peter Parker’s utterances does not contain frozen style and intimate style. Meanwhile, the function of language in this study shows four functions of language. There are phatic function, conative function, referential function, and expressive function. There are two functions of language that are not in the movie, namely poetic function and metalingual function because it does not match the contents of the story and Peter Parker’s utterances. The result shows that Peter Parker used more casual style to communicate with other characters and expressive functions, which aimed to express Peter Parker’s emotions and feelings. Keywords: Sociolinguistics, Type of language style, Function of language

르네 마그리트 작품의 제목 연구

The purpose of this study is to examine the aesthetics René Magritte seeks to realize through his titles by analyzing the titles of his works in detail at the grammatical and functional levels and revealing their characteristics. As a result of consideration based on vocabulary and frequency analysis of the titles of his works, the following characteristics were discovered. 1) Morphological and syntactic characteristics: His title is not much different from other surrealist titles in that its lexical frequency is similar to that of modern French, it uses both function words and content words equally, it frequently uses idioms, and it is not long and simple. However, it is distinguished from the latter titles in that it is frequently repeated. 2) Semantic characteristics: His title prefers vocabulary related to the ‘external world’ and its ‘sense’ instead of vocabulary related to the priority values of the Surrealist movement. 3) Functional characteristics: His title is similar to other surrealist titles in that it is difficult to find emotive, conative, and metalingual functions in it, and the poetic function is strengthened while the referential function is weakened. However, it differs from the latter titles in that it realizes the aesthetics of subversion that overturns realistic perception through poetic function.

Analysis of Language Style Uttered by the Characters in Premature Movie

Spoken language will always involve language style. This depends on the situation in which the conversation is taking place, and also the participants. This study was conducted to see the language style of the conversations in Premature movie. The data were analyzed by using qualitative method. The data analyzed based on the theory of language style proposed by Joos (1967), and it combined with the theory of function of language proposed by Holmes (1992). The data were taken from the conversation that uttered by the characters in Premature movie. Based on the analysis there are 19 data that found in the data source, there are four types of language style and six types of language function were found. The four language styles are four types of language style which are, formal style, consultative style, casual style, and intimate style. Casual style is the most dominant type in this movie. The six function of language that found by the researcher which are expressive function, directive function, referential function, metalinguistic function, poetic function, and phatic function. The most function of language occurred in the data analysis is directive function.

ПОЗАТЕЗАУРУСНА ЛЕКСИКА У ТВОРЧОСТІ Н. КАЗАНДЗАКІСА ТА О. ЕЛІТИСА

Background. The article focuses on the analysis of certain lexical units repeated in the texts of N. Kazantzakis and O. Elytis, which, despite their apparently neological character and absence in major Modern Greek dictionaries, cannot be definitively attributed to the individual author's neology. Neo-Hellenic studies experience a dearth of dictionaries documenting the specific language of major Modern Greek authors and their writings — a lacuna still in need of careful research into vocabularies not yet found in major dictionaries. The tendency of both authors to create new words on the basis of or on the models of archaic (mainly O. Elytis) and dialectal (mostly N. Kazantzakis) words, the misclassification of certain lexemes as authorial neology, the impossibility of lexicographically cover all layers of the Greek lexicon and the versatility of such a concept as "undictionaried words" (out-of-thesaurus, non-dictionary words, words not codified by dictionaries) in Greek scientific literature necessitate further study of the issue. The aim of this research is to focus on the analysis of "non-dictionary words" in the texts of the collections of both authors, to define their poetic function and different shades of meanings in the textual environment. Methods. In the presented analysis descriptive and special research methods were applied: methods of contextual, comparative and structural-semantic analysis, techniques of component and intertextual analysis. The material was selected by the method of continuous sampling; among the lexical units' selection criteria were: stylistic coloring, complete or partial absence of particular lexemes and their components in the major (or newest) dictionaries of Modern Greek language. All the selected lexical material is illustrated by examples from the original texts. Results. The present analysis revealed that some lexical units, which, at first glance, had all the features of the author's neology, on further investigation turned out to be documented earlier - they are present in other texts, articles, collections of literary pieces written by different authors, archives and dictionaries of different periods of Greek language development. Conclusions. As a unique linguistic material, the poems of O. Elytis and N. Kazantzakis have repeatedly become the subject of scientific research, both in terms of direct literary allusions and mythopoetic, but despite the large number of notable works, the scientific interest of researchers has not yet shifted more systematically to the compilation of specialized dictionaries. This issue is particularly acute with regard to the inexhaustible amount of still unexplored linguistic material collected by N. Kazantzakis for his poem 'The Odyssey'.

МОТИВ ФІТОМЕТАМОРФОЗ У ТВОРЧОСТІ ТАРАСА ШЕВЧЕНКА ТА ОВІДІЯ

Background. The study is devoted to a comparative analysis of the motif of phytometamorphosis in Ovid's poem "Metamorphoses" and three romantic ballads by Taras Shevchenko in order to establish common characteristics of functioning and to find out the reasons and authorial features of the use of thе denoted motif. Despite the widespread view that the plots of the analyzed ballads by Taras Shevchenko are inspired by the literary art of European romantics and national folklore motifs the paper argues for the rationality of drawing analogies between the use of the motif of phytometamorphosis in Ovid's poem and the balladry of the Ukrainian poet. Methods. In carrying out the research, a set of linguistic and literary methods was used: descriptive, comparative, mythopoetic, linguistic and cultural, functional, and psychoanalytic methods. Results. The parallels and authorial peculiarities in the use of the motif of transformation in the story about Apollo and Daphne, as described in Ovid's Metamorphoses, and the ballad "Topol" by Taras Shevchenko are identifiedThe reason for the change in form in both works is the rescue of the heroines from threatening circumstances. It is established that the main poetic function of the metamorphosis technique in the ballads "Poplar" and "Around a grove in an open field" is to soften the tragic ending of the narrative. The reasons for the florometamorphoses in the plots of Ovid's poem and Taras Shevchenko's ballad "Lilea" are analyzed, and the common semantic and functional features of this motif in the compared works are established. Some similarities related to the motif of metamorphosis in Ovid's poem and Ukrainian folklore are noted. Conclusions. On the basis of the study, the general summary theses on the genesis, functions and authorial peculiarities using the metamorphosis motif in the balladry of Taras Shevchenko and Ovid's poem "Metamorphoses" are made.

In Search of the Poetic Function. American ‘Language Poetry’ Revisits Russian Formalism

In Search of the Poetic Function. American ‘Language Poetry’ Revisits Russian Formalism

Syntaxe et signifiance de la parole conative dans la poésie Africaine Francophone

Syntax and Meaning of Conative Speech in Francophone African Poetry
 For those with an interest in African poetry, particularly Francophone poetry, several distinctive features underlie its originality and authenticity. These encompass rhythm, symbolism, and poetic imagery, serving as fundamental markers of the dominant poetic function within poetic discourse. These elements are inevitable considerations in any analysis, be it poetic or stylistic, of literary texts. Poetry in Africa, and conceivably beyond, undoubtedly serves a pragmatic, or more precisely, pragma-enunciative function, often obscured and overshadowed by the omnipotent poetic function—the quintessential literary function. In practical terms, the pragma-enunciative function of a poetic text is revealed through its conative nature. Essentially, poetry is a form of discourse inherently directed towards otherness, intended for an audience. Even when masquerading as an introspective work originating from the soul, ostensibly focused inward to express emotions in a context of heightened lyricism, poetry is fundamentally a conative expression. This characteristic is intrinsic to African poetry, with conative speech representing an indispensable aspect that may even be considered the ultimate purpose of the unavoidable poetic function of language. It is undeniable that elements such as rhythm, symbol, and poetic imagery, along with other aesthetic devices in verbal creation, serve as means of captivating and elevating the discourse, enabling the poet to construct a message aimed at captivating and stirring the reader. Nearly every aspect of the poem contributes to transforming it into a communication from self to other, essentially constituting second-person poetry. Conative speech, in the context of poetry, also assumes an incantatory function, a concept championed by Roman Jakobson, involving the conversion of an absent or inanimate "third person" into the recipient of a conative message. In the realm of French-speaking African poetry, conative speech holds literary, pragmatic, communicative, psychological, and cultural significance, among other dimensions. It is an indispensable component of African poetry, enhancing its illocutionary or even perlocutionary nature. Consequently, a nuanced examination of the syntax of this speech, especially its unconventional or unexpected elements

FUNGSI BAHASA DALAMTUTRAN RITUAL RANGGA NGINDI DEWA DALAM BUDAYA MASYARAKAT TANA RIGHU DI SUMBA BARAT

This article discusses the function of language in the Rangga Ngindi Dewa ritual speech in the Tana Righu community, West Sumba. Referring to the concept of language function according to Roman Jakobson, the results obtained regarding the language function implied in the Rangga Ngindi Dewa ritual speech are as follows: (1) phatic function is related to how to open and close communication with ancestral spirits; (2) emotional function related to expressing thoughts and feelings to the God and ancestral spirits; (3) the conative function is related to how to understand the responses of invisible participants; (4) and the poetic function is related to the element of aestetic in the use of language. These language functions constitute the entire linguistic structure of the Rangga Ngindi Dewa ritual speech which emphasizes transcendental communication.

ANALYSIS OF LANGUAGE FUNCTIONS IN THE SHORT STORY THE SUMMER SOLSTICE BY NICK JOAQUIN

Language and literature are essentially connected, and one cannot function without the other. Thus, this study analyzes the language functions used by the main characters in the short story The Summer Solstice by Nick Joaquin. This study aims to determine the types of Language functions in the short story and identify the most dominant language function used by the main characters. Moreover, the study also aims to analyze the context of the language functions identified. The researchers used Janet Holmes’ Theory of Language Function (2013) to analyze the utterances of the main characters and Dell Hymes' SPEAKING Model to analyze the context of the language functions in each utterance. The researchers then applied the descriptive qualitative design to systematically analyze the data. The result of this study shows that out of the eight (8) language functions identified by Janet Holmes (2013), only seven (7) types of language functions were found in the short story, namely expressive, directive, heuristic, referential, metalinguistic, phatic functions. On the other hand, poetic function was not found in this research. The findings revealed that this story dominantly uses expressive functions, in which the speaker's emotion is what captures the interest of the readers.

UNVEILING THE POETIC LANGUAGE OF STUDENT DISCOURSE ON INSTAGRAM

This study aims to investigate the poetic function of language used by students on Instagram pertaining to the discourse topics expressed by the students. These researchers adopted a qualitative approach as the research design. This study was conducted by collecting data towards students from schools in Denpasar, Bali, about students' Instagram captions as its document data for analysis. Based on observation, documentation, and interviews with all participants, it can be concluded that Roman Jakobson's poetics function of language, which was demonstrated in the students' Instagram captions, is a viable initiative to discover students’ topics of interest; the students tend to choose topics such as life, love (blossom, broken heart, or loneliness), nature (nature itself or related to humans), personality, wordplay, precious moment,self-confidence, and friendship. These captions are the result of the students' ideology, which include the ideology of wisdom, humor, confession, and hope.