ABSTRACT
We have seen that the linguistic event can function inventively in two different ways: in the non-literary work, where its results are what matter, and in the literary work, where the eventness of the event is what matters-although we must not forget that a single work can function in both these ways, even in a single reading. In the second case the reader experiences not just the event itself, but its happening as event. Another way of putting this is that the literary work exists only in performance.1
