Poetics and Linguistics Problems of the Linguistic Theory of Formal and Structural Approaches

Abstract

Both Russian Formalism and Structuralism adopt , in their poetic theorization , an intellectual view that intends to establish literature as a science by submitting literature to the procedures of scientific method . Scientific method requires studying the tangible realities , poetry is reduced to phonological structure as the Russian formalists introduce literature to the linguistic rules that govern the producing of the texts . To criticize the two schools , the researcher depends on intellectual and methodical bases that contradict the two approaches under study and that are based on compulsory philosophical separation of the philosophical structure and the mental content of the language , for if linguistics represents an active science in studying language , it cannot perceive the literary realities including the aesthetic and intellectual functions .