LITERARY COMMUNICATION

   

   In ELT:

   

   Listening       receptive                      Writing                  productive

   Reading                                                            Speaking

   

                          writer               work                reader

   

   constant interaction (predictions, preconceptions, hypotheses)

   

   

   moment of failed expectation

   

   

   

                          writer               work                reader

   

  

  Schemes of literary communication

   

   A (adapted from Jakobson)

   

                                                   code

   author                          text                                          addressee
   (reader)

                                                   context

   

   

   romantic                       structuralist                  reader-oriented

   (historicism)            formalist                       (hermeneutics,

                                                   marxist                          reception
   theory)                     

   

   B  Umberto Eco:

   

   Sender -- message -- channel -- meaning -- receiver

                (encoded)                                                         (decoded)

   

   CODE                                                                         CODE

   linguistic                                                                       linguistic

   secondary                                                                     secondary

   ideological                                                                    ideological

   

   

   Reader: naive, sentimental, discoursive

                            implied  x  real

   Literary work: fixed, universal meaning x shifting, unstable meaning

   

   Author: sociological, psychological category

   How important is the author? "Death of the author" means "the birth of the reader"? (Barthes)

   

   The literary "I"  x the real author