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Lemma  literature 
Categoria grammaticale  N 
Lingua  inglese 
Opera  Sapir (1921) 
Sinonimi   
Rinvii  color (inglese)
content (inglese)
expression (inglese)
form (inglese)
language (inglese)
medium (inglese)
meterial (inglese)
significance (inglese)  
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Citazioni 

When the expression is of unusual significance, we call it literature.
- Sapir (1921), a pag.221

Language is the medium of literature as marble or bronze or clay are the materials of the sculptor.
- Sapir (1921), a pag.222

The literature fashioned out of the form and substance of a language has the color and the texture of its matrix.
- Sapir (1921), a pag.222

Literature moves in language as a medium, but that medium comprises two layers the latent content of language [...] and the particular conformation of a given language.
- Sapir (1921), a pag.223

 
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