Both linguists and literary scholars deal with change over time. This special issue approaches the question of diachronic development from a comparative perspective, contrasting the ways in which analysis of changes observable in literary texts over the centuries is handled in the realm of literary studies and how linguists discuss language-specific (dis)continuities from one period to the other. For instance, as is well known, generic modifications and repurposing frequently play an important role in literary studies, while linguists often focus on form versus function analysis. These methodological preferences are not exclusive to the two fields, however. The essays in this issue demonstrate how very similar questions and often comparable methodologies are employed by linguists and literary scholars, especially by representatives of historical pragmatics and narratologists, who share methodological assumptions about form and function analysis.

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历时性：语言学和文学研究之间共有的问题


语言学家和文学学者都处理随时间的变化。本期特刊从比较的角度探讨了历时发展的问题，对比了在文学研究领域处理几个世纪以来文学文本中可观察到的变化的分析方式，以及语言学家如何讨论从一个时期到另一个时期的特定语言（不）连续性。例如，众所周知，通用修改和再利用经常在文学研究中发挥着重要作用，而语言学家通常专注于形式与功能分析。然而，这些方法论偏好并不仅限于这两个领域。本期的文章展示了语言学家和文学学者，尤其是历史语用学和叙事学家的代表是如何采用非常相似的问题和通常类似的方法的，他们对形式和功能分析有着相同的方法论假设。