REFLECTING ON LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE

The use of language in a literary text is different from  other types of text:

•-         it is rather remote from everyday language;

•-         literary words transform words into new visions of reality

•-         a literary text is not necessarily  connected with the writer's life, the text has a life of its own.

Advertisements often use literary language because it is full of ENERGY and it makes a lasting impression on listeners

Some literary texts have become "Classics". A text is a "Classic" when it always tells new things to new generations and it TRANSFORMS our vision of the world

Writing a tex may be a form of art.

Art is something which distinguishes something  from somethingelse.

Culture is a crossroads  of codes, behaviours and knowledge peculiar to different people.

Art TRANSFORMS Culture. This is why dictatorships (Roman, Russian, Nazi...) persecuted artists and imposed their language: they wanted everybody to conform.

NEW WORDS:

•-         to appear = apparire, farsi vedere

•-         to be aware of = essere consapevole di

•-         to make somebody aware of = rendere qualcuno consapevole di

      •-         not to be ok / well = star male

•-         to be fed up = essere stufo

•-         to be packed with = essere pieno di

•-         to pay homage = rendere omaggio

•-         to quote = citare

•-         to reflect on = riflettere

•-         to talk TO = parlare CON qualcuno

•-         to think of = pensare a qualcosa di chiaro nella mente

•-         to think about = pensare a qualcosa di astratto

•-         catch-phrase = frase che cattura l'attenzione

•-         device = congegno

•-         goods = merci

•-         taboo = tabù