Zürich, Switzerland

Hebrew Language and Literature

Hebräische Sprache und Literatur

Bachelor's
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Hebrew Language and Literature at UZH

Language: GermanStudies in German
Subject area: humanities
University website: www.uzh.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
How else can I say it? I don't speak no other languages.
Warren A. Mathis, "Ugly" (6 August 2001), Dark Days, Bright Nights
Literature
La mode d'aimer Racine passera comme la mode du café.
The fashion of liking Racine will pass away like that of coffee.
Language
Language is fossil poetry.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, The Poet.
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