Aachen, Germany

Literature and Linguistics

Literatur- und Sprachwissenschaft

Master's
Language: GermanStudies in German
Subject area: humanities
Qualification: Master
Kind of studies: full-time studies
University website: www.rwth-aachen.de
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of language, and involves an analysis of language form, language meaning, and language in context. The earliest activities in the documentation and description of language have been attributed to the 6th century BC Indian grammarian Pāṇini, who wrote a formal description of the Sanskrit language in his Aṣṭādhyāyī.
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.
Linguistics
Omnia Græce!
Cum sit turpe magis nostris nescire Latine.
Everything is Greek, when it is more shameful to be ignorant of Latin.
Linguistics
This is your devoted friend, sir, the manifold linguist.
William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well (1600s), Act IV, scene 3, line 262.
Literature
Time the great destroyer of other men's happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.
Isaac D'Israeli, [The Literary Character, Illustrated by the History of Men of Genius (1795-1822), Chapter XXII.
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