Toward a Theory of Context in Linguistics and Literature : Proceedings of a Conference of the Kelemen Mikes Hungarian Cultural Society, Maastricht, September 21–25, 1971

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language. Linguistics And Poetry: The Peculiarities Of Poetic Language / Áron Kibédi Varga -- Death And The Happy Ending / Elemér Hankiss -- Linguistics, Communication Theory, And Social Interaction Psychology (sip) / Ferenec Fabricius-kovács -- The Voice Of The Poet / Iván Fónagy -- Notes On Linguistics In Hungary / György Szépe -- The Problems Of Connotation / Georges Kassai -- Degree Of Nonsense, Or Transformation, Stratification, And The Contextual Adjustability Principle / Adam Makkai. Edited And Translated From The Hungarian By Adam Makkai. Bibliography: P. 196. CONTENTS FOREWORD Linguistics and Poetry: The Peculiarities of Poetic Language Death and the "Happy Ending" Linguistics, Communication Theory, and Social Interaction Psychology (SIP) The Voice of the Poet Notes on Linguistics in Hungary The Problems of Connotation Degrees of Nonsense, or Transformation, Stratification, and the "Contextual Adjustability Principle" BIBLIOGRAPHY