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This book is a collection of unusual stories about the language, its grammatical structure and spelling. Here, the reader is not a mere recipient of grammar lessons, but an engaged participant in the exciting discovery of the essence of linguistic phenome
The publication contains verses from poets awarded with the Olive Wreath at the Croatia Rediviva Heritage Days held in Selce on Brač from 2016-2020.
Berruto explains what meaning is in language and how it is formed, interpreted, and transmitted. He elaborates on different approaches to semantics, including the relationship between words, concepts, and reality.
Words are like people: they are born, grow, travel, cross the borders of municipalities, provinces and states, adapt, change nationality and citizenship, reproduce, age and die, and – unlike people, similar to gods – they can also be resurrected.
Feel the charm, freedom and endearing spontaneity of speech, which with its expansiveness, dynamism and playful violence strongly opposes the norms of the literary language, destroying its framework!