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French Language and Literature

Langue et Littérature françaises

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French Language and Literature at University of Geneva

Language: FrenchStudies in French
Subject area: humanities
University website: www.unige.ch/

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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
He has strangled
His language in his tears.
William Shakespeare, Henry VIII (c. 1613), Act V, scene 1, line 158.
Language
Language is the only instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
Samuel Johnson, Preface to his English Dictionary.
Language
How else can I say it? I don't speak no other languages.
Warren A. Mathis, "Ugly" (6 August 2001), Dark Days, Bright Nights
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