Semantic ‘drift’ in verbal art

Butt, David

doi:10.1075/aral.6.1.04but

Article published In: Australian Review of Applied Linguistics
Vol. 6:1 (1983) ► pp.38–48

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Semantic ‘drift’ in verbal art

David Butt | Macquarie University

Published online: 1 January 1983

https://doi.org/10.1075/aral.6.1.04but

Abstract

Poetic language is permanently characterized only by its function; however function is not a property but a mode of utilizing the properties of a given phenomenon.

(Mukarovský, 1977)

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