A work which will be in progress for another decade probably, and a very old and rough first attempt to think at how one can bring together world system analysis and literature studies. I've updated my thinking about it quite a lot but I never really got to write it all down. But here it is, and I plan to keep working on this until I get something: how do we read literature through conflicts?

Following Giannoni’s classification of the rhetorical strategies for overt (rather than covert) negative evaluation, the current study aimed to investigate lexico-grammatical structures to instantiate Overall Conflictual Relations and Displacement as two major rhetorical strategies to realize Academic Conflict in two distinct corpora of textbooks in applied linguistics specifically taught at MA and PhD levels. Adopting a Mixed-Methods Approach, the study revealed the various lexico-grammatical items that were frequently used to instantiate Displacement and Overall Conflictual Relations. Qualitatively, the emerging patterns and the functions they served were delineated. At the quantitative stage of the approach, the corresponding distributions of the emerging patterns were investigated and recorded. This corpus-based study also found that the two corpora utilized resources for expression of Overall Conflictual Relations with an almost similar distribution; however, there was a stati...

Literature involves the manipulation of language for creative purposes and the discipline which fosters this synergic relationship between literature and language is termed stylistics. The purpose of this article is to show how it is possible to bridge the divide between language and literature by using the analytical techniques available within this sub-discipline of language study. Stylistics aims to interconnect linguistic form and literary effect, and also account for what it is that readers respond to when they praise the quality of a particular piece of writing. This article attempts to depict how the knowledge of linguistic intricacies can affect the reader's interpretation. It also discusses how linguistic form relates to literary effect by analysing " Domination of Black " , by the renowned American poet Wallace Stevens. We aim to show that a linguistic approach to the analysis of a literary text does not have to mean that interpretation is disregarded. On the contrary, stylistic analysis can often illuminate why a particular literary text is regarded so highly. Introduction Contemporary Age has attested the emergence of stylistics as a powerful linguistic tool for analyzing literary texts. The relationship between the study of literature and the study of language has often been one of unease. While literary critics have censured the austere approach used by scholars of language in their analyses of literary texts, linguists have arraigned litterateurs of being too vague and subjective in the analyses they produced. The insight of Jakobson (1960) who has frequently cited the relationship between linguistics and literary studies is worth noting here. He states that:

In recent work, Cora Diamond has criticized an aspect of Peter Winch’s attack on E.E. Evans-Pritchard’s classic Ethnography Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Azande. Winch claimed that some of Evans-Pritchard’s descriptions Zande practices contained logical fallacies rooted in a form of European ethnocentrism. Diamond, in turn, attack’s Winch’s arguments for an unwarranted assumption that genuine conflicts between different systems of thought are unintelligible, since it is only within established grammars or domains of discourse that something can be said at all. She claims against this that it is also possible to regard such conflicts as taking place in a logical space provided by the conflicts themselves and not necessarily only by the resources of each taken separately. I argue that despite their cogency, Diamond’s arguments nevertheless rest on historical factors, and this I suggest may not sit comfortably with the overall realist thrust of her views.