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Basic Cencepts
process whereby Éhings are perceived anew, in a different
ííghÉ, aud which he illusÉrated wiLh his farnous example of
discovering Éhe ‘stoniness’ of a stone. According Lo Skhlovski,
~he purpose of poetic Language should be precisely that of
defarniliarísing Laken-for-grantedexperieflces. Sirnilarly, oLher
auÉhors have since described Lhe deauLomatising function of
liLerature in dibferent ways (See Garvin 1964, PraLÉ 1977 and
BurLon 1980> . Burton explores the notions
of automatisation/deauLomatisation and suggests Lhat ah
varieties of a language have automatising devices which to a
cerLain extent are shared wiLh other varieties. Automatisation
is violated by means of fforegrounding certain linguisLic
teatures, a device which deautomatises the reading proceas and
whicb is described by Havránek as follows: ‘By
foregrounding (...) we mean Lhe use of the devices of the
language in such way that this use attracts attention and is
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