Historical Periods as Problematics: Socio-linguistic Situations, Sociolects and Discourses

Peter V. Zima

European Review, 2013, vol. 21, issue 2, 292-299

Abstract: The author attempts a redefinition of literary epochs or periods as problematics, i.e. as constellations of problems to which individuals and groups react in many different ways. In this respect he differs from those who construct literary periods as world visions, ideologies, aesthetics or stylistics. He defines problematics from a sociosemiotic point of view: as socio-linguistic situations in which competing collective languages (sociolects) and discourses react critically and polemically to one another.

Date: 2013
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