Towards a linguistic theory of foregrounding

Foregrounding • The notion of foregrounding, a term borrowed from the Prague School of Linguistics, is used by Leech and Short (1981: 48) to refer to ‘artistically motivated deviation’. • It refers to the range of stylistic effects that occur in literature, whether at the phonetic level (e.g., alliteration, rhyme), or the semantic level (e.g., metaphor, irony). Thus, readers with general linguistic skills -- and either high or low in literary competence -- will respond to foregrounding by finding it striking, affectively evocative, and interpretively challenging, even though it is very likely that readers with high levels of literary competence will more effectively develop a coherent understanding of the meaning of foregrounded passages.

i) The Background to Foregrounding Jan Mukařovský, one of the founding members of the Prague Linguistic Circle, explores the concept of foregrounding (aktualisace) in a paper entitled ‘Standard Language and Poetic Language’.[1] Mukařovský is never in any doubt that there is a distinction to be made between ‘standard’ language and ‘poetic’ language, and he writes… 18/02/2019 · Foregrounding, the linguistic deviation and novelty, is endowed with literary-aesthetic value which is closely associated with “literariness.” My project offers a renewed attempt to enquire into literariness in a spectrum of text types ranging from academic discourse and newspaper articles to fiction and poetry by investigating foregrounding practices in both literary and non-literary texts.

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