This course examines the interactive relationship between language and literature. It is intended to assist the student to develop a permanent consciousness of language, as they approach literary texts. It examines the nature, composition and functions of language in society, and also looks at its practical relationship with meaning in literary texts. The course seeks to equip the student with a sound theoretical understanding of language both as an arbitrary set of symbols, and as a dynamic system of communication on which humans rely to exchange a variety of meanings, and to represent their various worlds through creative writing.
