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Didactics of English Language and Literature and Hungarian Language and Literature

Didaktika anglického jazyka a literatúry a maďarského jazyka a literatúry

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⇑Didactics of English Language and Literature and Hungarian Language and Literature at J. Selye University

Language: Slovak Studies in Slovak
Subject area: teacher training and education science
University website: www.ujs.sk
Type: PhD/Doctoral programme
Academic degree: PhD.
Duration: 3–4 years

⇑Definitions and quotes

English Language
English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca. Named after the Angles, one of the Germanic tribes that migrated to England, it ultimately derives its name from the Anglia (Angeln) peninsula in the Baltic Sea. It is closely related to the Frisian languages, but its vocabulary has been significantly influenced by other Germanic languages, particularly Norse (a North Germanic language), as well as by Latin and French.
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.
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.
Language
The only thing in life is language. Not love. Not anything else.
Richard Burton as quoted by Melvyn Bragg in Richard Burton: A Life (1988)
Literature
* * * A man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, On Sir William Temple.
Literature
There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is—to teach; the function of the second is—to move, the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy.
Thomas De Quincey, Essays on the Poets, Alexander Pope.
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