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This article is an account of the emerging revision of views on peculiarity of thinking processes and interpersonal communication acts. The authoress comes to the conclusion that perhaps, it is high time now to reject some highly systemic concepts in favour of intuitive and more commonsensical research/scholarly attitudes, particularly in the area of investigations in reader response.
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The article focuses on the reconstruction of discourses on literary communication in the context of German literary studies. In German literary studies, discussions on literary communication mostly refer to Niklas Luhmann’s attempts to apply the systems theory to literary studies – i.e., the study of literature as a communication/social system. Luhmann’s reception in Germany is very divergent and has a transdisciplinary character. It is not easy to identify elements of systems theory in the cross-overs of literary studies and cultural and media studies. It seems meaningful to focus on the study of literary/aesthetic communication, which is, however, a long-term project. What we can offer here is only a few explorations to clarify the contribution of system-theory-oriented approaches in literary studies, or, alternatively, its limits. The problem is that in the situation when certain elements of the Luhmann’s theory are isolated and integrated into various literary studies projects, it is not possible to speak of systems-theory literary studies as a homogeneous stream with clear aims and methods.
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The chief motivation for introducing abstract subjects in literary studies is the analysis of the operation of the work of literature in the process of communication between author and reader. One observes two main problems with Eco’s theory of abstract subjects: the effectiveness of introducing a conceptual framework and its application to the analysis of the levels of communication in the narrative text. The treatment of the problem of the effectiveness of introducing abstract subjects assumes mainly a clarification of certain metatheoretical and possibly also theoretical premises. At the metatheoretical level one can distinguish between the ‘realistic’ and the ‘functionalistic’ approach. In the first, the chief task is to describe the nature and relations of the basic constituents of the process of communication, in which this description is influenced by the underlying ontology appearing in the terminology of the given theory. In the second, the chief task is to illustrate the structure of the process of communication and of the abstract positions that constitute the basic components of this structure. The problem of the analysis of communication in narratological texts in Eco’s works presumes the correlation of the terms of model author and model narrator, in other words, two different levels of communication implemented by means of the literary text, where the communication between author and reader lies on one side and the communication taking place within the fictional world of the narrative lies on the other. This article seeks mainly to achieve a critical assessment of the means by which Eco operates with the premise of the abstract subjects of model author and model reader. The article intends to offer reflections on possible approaches in a specific literary studies debate, and, on this basis, to define the space for more narrowly defined discussions with individual standpoints, and to limit the emergence of pseudo­discussions that arise from fuzzy (meta)theoretical framework.
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THREE FORMS OR THREE KINDS OF ORAL LITERATURE

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World Literature Studies
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2014
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vol. 6 (23)
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issue 3
100 – 110
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There are several modern works on oral literature, but they do not distinguish one from the others among three forms of oral literature: the everyday orality (a), orality in the folklore (b), and the professional orality (c) (where official historic narratives, sacred texts or literature exist, from the time before the use of literacy). The author contrasts just the three forms according to the terms of communication theory: addresser – addressee – coding – decoding – message. The chart makes possible to put the question: whether the three forms are the forms of the same “orality”, or they are three different kinds of it. The second alternative will also help the theory of literature and the theory of genres.
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The study evaluates the methodological contribution of a Slovak literary scholar Peter Liba (1931 – 2020), who was one of the founders of the Institute for Research of Constantine and Methodius’ Cultural Heritage and the University of Constantine the Philosopher in Nitra. As a literary scholar, Liba significantly influenced the theory of interpretation and communication in a number of humanistic fields of study and thematic areas (folklore, popular literature, translation, children’s and youth literature, bibliography, biography studies, textology, culturology etc.). The study also defines the researcher’s autonomous position within the so-called semiotic-communication Nitra school and its expressive theory of the text, which the work of aforementioned professor enriched interdisciplinary with diachronic and comparative aspects of not only primary but also secondary communication. Within its framework, Liba elaborated on the problems of the functions of literary education, typology of reading and literacy, literary-museum communication, biography studies and circulation of the so-called degraded layers of literary development. As a literary theorist, he came from textological analysis and heuristic research to uncovering the connections between literature and culture and its ethical dimension.
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