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In relation to the particularities of and interfaces between literary and linguistic studies highlighted by Simpson (1996) in the excerpt above, consider the statements below:
I. The level of abstraction in the majority of linguistic theories is comparable to research conducted in vitro in biological sciences.
II. Characteristics unique to literary communication make it ideal as concrete examples against which theories can be tested.
III. Stylistics is a comparative method of linguistic study which can benefit from the deviations from the norm found in literary discourse.
IV. Literary communication is highly abstract and does not reflect uses in naturalistic settings.
The following statement(s) is(are) correct: