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Italian Language and Literature

Langue et littérature italiennes

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⇑Italian Language and Literature at University of Geneva

Language: French Studies in French

Subject area: languages

University website: www.unige.ch/

Programme: Italian Studies
Type: PhD/Doctoral programme
Academic degree: Doctorat ès lettres: langue et littérature italiennes/PhD of Art in Italian Studies

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Language

Language is a system that consists of the development, acquisition, maintenance and use of complex systems of communication, particularly the human ability to do so; and a language is any specific example of such a system.

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Literature

Literature, most generically, is any body of written works. More restrictively, literature writing is considered to be an art form, or any single writing deemed to have artistic or intellectual value, often due to deploying language in ways that differ from ordinary usage.

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Literature

From the hour of the invention of printing, books, and not kings, were to rule the world. Weapons forged in the mind, keen-edged, and brighter than a sunbeam, were to supplant the sword and battle-axe. Books! lighthouses built on the sea of time! Books! by whose sorcery the whole pageantry of the world's history moves in solemn procession before our eyes. From their pages great souls look down in all their grandeur, undimmed by the faults and follies of earthly existence, consecrated by time.

Edwin Percy Whipple, p. 386.

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Language

Henry Drummond: Language is a poor enough means of communication. I think we should use all the words we've got. Besides, there are damned few words that anybody understands!

Inherit the Wind (1960 film), Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee

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Well languag'd Danyel.

William Browne, Britannia's Pastorals, Book II. Song 2, line 303.

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