1. Linguistics & Literary Studies: Interfaces, Encounters, Transfers
(http://www.frias.uni-freiburg.de/lang_and_lit/veranstaltungen/studies-lili)
There may have been a time when linguists and literary scholars were both working side by side, studying a national language and its literature. This affinity between literature and language studies inside the philological disciplines devel¬oped in the late eighteenth century and was deeply rooted in and linked to the na¬tion-building processes at the time… in the first half of the 20th century, structuralism, radically changed this situation… The connection bet¬ween linguistics and literary studies became further attenuated with the diversification of literary and linguistic research in the second half of the twentieth century, particularly with the advent of increasingly computerised mo¬dels in linguistics. For more than forty years, literary research and linguistics have undergone a series of theory shifts which have driven these two halves of philology departments apart…

2. On convergence versus divergence between linguistics and literary studies
(http://www.gxnu.edu.cn/Personal/szliu/Linguistics%20and%20literature.doc)

1) Divergence: literary circle took a skeptical attitude towards the function of linguistics in the study of literary works; linguistics circle overlooked the study of the written language or was wondering around the edge or verge as to whether speech and writing, or langue and parole should be the focus or object in research; two separate disciplines of study.

2) Convergence: brought about in the 1960s with the rise of sociolinguistics, and the introduction of speech act theory and text linguistics; a number of linguists and literary critics have moved from the two extremes to a merge of the two disciplines, with the linguists taking literary language as their subject of investigation, and the critics adopting a linguistic approach; new branch of learning = linguistic stylistics or new stylistics.

3) Stylistics: the study of literary discourse from a linguistic orientation (or to treat literature as discourse, and adopt a linguistic approach) (Widdowson, 1975)