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Language and Literature Studies

Valodu un literatūras studijas

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⇑Language and Literature Studies at Riga Technical University

Language: Latvian Studies in Latvian
Subject area: languages
University website: www.rtu.lv
Type: PhD/Doctoral programme
Academic degree: Zinātnes doktora grāds, zinātnes doktors (Ph.D.) humanitārajās un mākslas zinātnēs
Duration: 3 years

⇑Definitions and quotes

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.
Literature
Literature is news that stays news.
Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading (1934), Ch. 8
Language
There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture.
William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale (c. 1610-11), Act V, scene 2, line 12.
Language
Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims (1876), Quotation and Originality.
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