“It is part of the task of linguistics to describe texts, and all texts, including those prose or verse, which fall within any definition of literature and are accessible to analysis by the existing methods of linguistics.”

Source: 1950s–1960s, The Linguistic Sciences and Language Teaching, 1964, p. 1.

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Australian linguist 1925–2018

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