The main concern of the section ‘Comparative Poetics’ is (а) literary lore (oral tradition) and (б) (written, author’s) literature. Both can and should be regarded as speech production, as a medium of text exchange – the only difference is that in our case the texts are structured according to both rules of the natural language and rules of the poetic language with its units and arrangements of and relations between them.      You are welcomed to discuss poetic language as a specific communicative system, structure and implementation (socio-cultural context) of the poetic languages within the poetic traditions with their examples of literary lore and literature.      More specific issues relate to the analysis of texts/literary monuments, their backgrounds (e.g. recording), and others