26.09.2011 VOCABULARY FOR LITERATURE

appreciation = valutazione
to discuss = discutere criticamente
to show/to give evidence = mostrare/dare prova di
to be aware of = essere consapevole di
UN awareness = consapevolezza
to convey = trasmettere
to deny = negare
to originate from = avere origine da

| to consider
| to take into consideration -> prendere in considerazione
| to take into account

to account for = fornire un resoconto
to influence/to affect = influenzare
to be remote from = to be distant (not only in time), something which is not familiar

| to set = ambientare
| setting = ambientazione
| environment= ambiente
| milieu =ambiente

UN poetry = tutte le opere e i testi poetici scritti da qualcuno
C poem = componimento poetico

relation -> fra cose
relationship -> fra persone

earliest = primo/più vecchio
latest = ultimo/più recente

what/all that = tutto quello che
there is no need = non è necessario

UN strength    ≠     UN force
       ↓                        ↓
forza fisica        abstract concept

discourse          ≠          speech
        ↓                             ↓
textual forms     something said/reported

text
context = all the influences coming from the period, the time and space
cotext = what goes together with the text (the words in the surroundings)
architext = the earliest text showing that particular structure

Textual analysis means to analyse the interrelationships of (UN) form and (UN) content.
                  ↓
       oral and written

Levels:
 - phonological level (level of sound)
 - semantical level (word choices, semantic domains, use of verbs: active/passive, aspects of verbs, tone of language)
 - syntactical level (syntax: word order, punctuation)
 - rhetorical level (figures of speech: metaphors, synecdoch, metonymy, hyperbole, litotes, etc.)

In the end the reader had to be able to explain how the choices made in the previous levels make up meaning.