EUGENIO COSERIU E A QUESTÃO DA IDENTIDADE ENTRE LINGUAGEM E LITERATURA
EUGENIO COSERIU AND THE ISSUE OF THE IDENTITY BETWEEN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Summary/Abstract: Eugenio Coseriu and the Issue of the Identity between Language and Literature. Eugenio Coseriu (2007) assumes that literature is a privileged place for the full functioning of language as a creative activity, so literary texts, as works of language, should serve as models for both the linguistics of language and textual linguistics. Through literature, as Coseriu maintains, it is possible to appreciate the infinite possibilities of structuring and restructuring linguistic resources in the service of communicative activity and to demonstrate how the concrete linguistic sign operates within a complex structure of interrelations, which is based on an equally elaborate set of interdependent semantic functions (Coseriu 1977). If literature highlights in potential what is observed in everyday language, although it may not seem so, everything in language is poetry. Considering, therefore, Eugenio Coseriu’s keen interest in demonstrating that literature can be read as a measure to understand linguistic functioning, this paper aims to accompany the construction of Coserian theoretical and methodological arguments to defend the necessity of evidencing that there is an identity between language and literature, beyond a mere supposed relationship.

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