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Constructed action and constructed dialogue are pragmatic features of languages where the speaker performs the role of someone else during a conversation or narrative. Metzger defines them as the way people "use their body, head, and eye gaze to report the actions, thoughts, words, and expressions of characters within a discourse". [ 1 ]
Constructed language created for the residents of More's fictional nation of Utopia; one of the first attempts at a constructed language. Zaum: 1913 Velimir Khlebnikov, Aleksei Kruchonykh et al. Poetic tongue elaborated by these Russian Futurists as a "transrational" and "most universal" language "of songs, incantations, and curses." Syldavian
Multani is one of four Landa scripts whose usage was extended beyond the mercantile domain and formalized for literary activity and printing; the others being Gurmukhi, Khojki, and Khudabadi. Although Multani is now obsolete, it is a historical script in which written and printed records exist. [ 2 ]
Abugida historically used to write the Mongolian language: Stokoe notation: 1960: William Stokoe: Proposed featural system of writing sign languages Tangut: Tang: 1036: Yeli Renrong: Logographic script historically used to write the extinct Tangut language: Tengwar: Teng: 1930s: J. R. R. Tolkien: Elven script used for various languages in his ...
James Joyce's 1922 novel Ulysses bears an intertextual relationship to Homer's Odyssey.. Julia Kristeva coined the term "intertextuality" (intertextualité) [13] in an attempt to synthesize Ferdinand de Saussure's semiotics: his study of how signs derive their meaning from the structure of a text (Bakhtin's dialogism); his theory suggests a continual dialogue with other works of literature and ...
Dialogue is usually identified by the use of quotation marks and a dialogue tag, such as 'she said'. [5] "This breakfast is making me sick," George said. 'George said' is the dialogue tag, [6] which is also known as an identifier, an attributive, [7] a speaker attribution, [8] a speech attribution, [9] a dialogue tag, and a tag line. [10]
Urdu literature (Urdu: ادبیاتِ اُردُو, “Adbiyāt-i Urdū”) comprises the literary works, written in the Urdu language.While it tends to be dominated by poetry, especially the verse forms of the ghazal (غزل) and nazm (نظم), it has expanded into other styles of writing, including that of the short story, or afsana (افسانہ).
One of the earliest examples of modern Burushaski literature was the poetry written by Prof. Allamah Nasiruddin Nasir Hunzai in the 1940s. He began by using the Urdu alphabet to write the language, but soon realized that Urdu script was not adequate to the task, since it lacked the necessary letters to represent certain phonemes unique to ...