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From the dawn of time to the mid-twentieth century, Mario Pei discusses the formation and development of language - the weapon by which mankind has advanced from savagery to civilization.
The book is still required reading at philological faculties today because it systematically connects language with literature and social context for the first time. It is written clearly, without ideological exclusivity, which was a rarity in 1990.
In his lecture Linguistics and Poetics, Russian-American linguist Roman Jakobson (1896–1982) explores the relationship between language and literature, arguing that poetics is a subdivision of linguistics that deals with what makes a verbal message a work
"Sermons: A Selection from World Oratory" is an anthology of oratory edited by Vera Popović, with a foreword by Živojin Simić. With few exceptions, the sermons in this collection have now been either translated for the first time or retranslated for this