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Hello and welcome to the Wikiversity School of Language and Literature. Here we share our knowledge of methods and ways of writing poetry and prose, and learn foreign languages and explore their cultures, too. We also discuss many works of literature and literary epochs they belong to, as well as their historical development and main characteristics by which they can be recognized. | Hello and welcome to the Wikiversity School of Language and Literature. Here we share our knowledge of methods and ways of writing poetry and prose, and learn foreign languages and explore their cultures, too. We also discuss many works of literature and literary epochs they belong to, as well as their historical development and main characteristics by which they can be recognized. | ||
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Soon after the Wikiversity became a separate Wikimedia project, these two schools were merged together, creating the School of Language and Literature, as part of the Faculty of Humanities. | Soon after the Wikiversity became a separate Wikimedia project, these two schools were merged together, creating the School of Language and Literature, as part of the Faculty of Humanities. | ||
==Departments and divisions== | ==Departments and divisions== | ||
*[[School:Linguistics|School of Linguistics]] | |||
*[[Topic:Literary Studies|Literary Studies Department]] | |||
*[[Topic:English Language|English Studies Department]] | |||
*[[Topic:Foreign Language Learning|Division of Foreign Languages]] | |||
*[[Topic:Literary Studies|Literary studies]] | *[[Topic:Literary Studies|Literary studies]] | ||
*[[Topic:Foreign Language Learning|Foreign languages learning]] | *[[Topic:Foreign Language Learning|Foreign languages learning]] | ||
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*[[School:Language and Literature/Catalogue|List of all projects and courses offered]] | *[[School:Language and Literature/Catalogue|List of all projects and courses offered]] | ||
==Learning resources== | |||
===Wikibooks=== | |||
*[[b:Wikibooks:Language and literature bookshelf|Books about language and literature]] | |||
*[[b:Wikibooks:Languages bookshelf|Textbooks for learning languages]] | |||
*[[b:Wikibooks:Humanities bookshelf|Humanities bookshelf]] | |||
*[[b:Wikibooks:Social sciences bookshelf|Social sciences bookshelf]] | |||
==Did you know...=== | ==Did you know...=== | ||
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*...that '''[[Indo-European languages]]''', according to the theory that is accepted by most linguists and historians, probably originated in present-day India and Iran, but that linguists also believe they originated in Europe, since that's where most of them are spoken? | *...that '''[[Indo-European languages]]''', according to the theory that is accepted by most linguists and historians, probably originated in present-day India and Iran, but that linguists also believe they originated in Europe, since that's where most of them are spoken? | ||
== | ==Selected biography== | ||
=== | [[Image:VukKaradzic.jpg|right|100px|Vuk Stefanović Karadžić]] '''Vuk Stefanović Karadžić''' (1787-1864) was one the most prominent Serbian linguists. He reformed the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet by applying the principles ''one letter per one sound'' and ''write as you speak'', and realized the idea of introducing the spoken language into the Serbian literature. He was collecting and publishing Serbian folk stories and poems. His major books were ''Serbian Dictionary'' and ''Serbian Grammar'', both published together in 1818, in which he for first time used the reformed alphabet. Although there were some opponents of Vuk's language reform, his principles were finally accepted and realized in Serbian literature and linguistics. Vuk's language was a base upon which the modern Serbian standard language was developed. | ||
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*[[ | ==Notable quotes== | ||
"Language is guardian of a nation. As long as the language exists, as long as we keep it, love it, and respect it, as long as we write in it and speak it; the nation exists as well, and it doesn't flow over into another one, nor it will disappear."<br> | |||
— ''Vuk St. Karadzic, Serbian slavicist'' | |||
==See also== | |||
*[[School:Linguistics|School of Linguistics]] | |||
*[[School:Classics|School of Classics]] | |||
*[[Portal:Humanities|Humanities Portal]] | |||
*[[Portal:Social Sciences|Social Sciences Portal]] | |||
*[[Portal:Writing Center|Wikiversity's Writing Center]] | |||
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Revision as of 05:08, 1 May 2007
FACULTY FOR HUMANITIES Art and Design · Classics · Mythology · Law · Language and Literature · Music · Philosophy · Theology
WELCOME TO THE SCHOOL OF
LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
part of the Faculty for Humanities.
Hello and welcome to the Wikiversity School of Language and Literature. Here we share our knowledge of methods and ways of writing poetry and prose, and learn foreign languages and explore their cultures, too. We also discuss many works of literature and literary epochs they belong to, as well as their historical development and main characteristics by which they can be recognized.
Science that studies the structure of a language and its development is called linguistics. Wikiversity's School of Linguistics is part of the Faculty of Social Sciences.
School news and current events
- Looking for contributors.
- 27 September 2006 - A new division has been founded: French Language Division!
- 22 October 2006 - A new department has been founded: Department of Tolkien languages!
- 19 November 2006 - A new division has been founded: Spanish Language Division!
- 11 December 2006 - A new division has been founded: Esperanto Language Division!
- 21 January 2007 - A new school has been founded: Southeast Asian Languages Division!
- 12 April 2007: - A new school has been founded: Klingon Language Department.
School history
The School of Literature and English Studies was founded within the Wikiversity's Department of Humanities on 15 July 2004, in the time when Wikiversity was still part of the Wikibooks project. Eventually, it became one of the most developed of Wikiversity's schools.
On 30 March 2005, the School of Foreign Language Learning was founded within the Department of Practical Arts and Sciences, though it failed to organize or function adequately.
Soon after the Wikiversity became a separate Wikimedia project, these two schools were merged together, creating the School of Language and Literature, as part of the Faculty of Humanities.
Departments and divisions
- School of Linguistics
- Literary Studies Department
- English Studies Department
- Division of Foreign Languages
- Literary studies
- Foreign languages learning
- English language
- Writing
- History
- Arabic
- Slavic
- French
- German
- Klingon
- Tolkien
- Southeast Asian Languages
- British novel
- British poetry
- American poetry
- List of all projects and courses offered
Learning resources
Wikibooks
- Books about language and literature
- Textbooks for learning languages
- Humanities bookshelf
- Social sciences bookshelf
Did you know...=
- ...that Old English is grammatically closer to modern German than to modern English?
- ...that Slavonic languages are mutually more similar than the German dialects?
- ...that John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, has highly influenced later fictional literature worldwide? And did you know that he was also a great expert in languages, and that he has created about twenty artificial languages himself?
- ...that Esperanto is the most famous among many artificial languages? It is an auxiliary language created by Polish doctor Zamenhof, whose pseudonym was doctor Esperanto.
- ...that Indo-European languages, according to the theory that is accepted by most linguists and historians, probably originated in present-day India and Iran, but that linguists also believe they originated in Europe, since that's where most of them are spoken?
Selected biography
Vuk Stefanović Karadžić (1787-1864) was one the most prominent Serbian linguists. He reformed the Serbian Cyrillic alphabet by applying the principles one letter per one sound and write as you speak, and realized the idea of introducing the spoken language into the Serbian literature. He was collecting and publishing Serbian folk stories and poems. His major books were Serbian Dictionary and Serbian Grammar, both published together in 1818, in which he for first time used the reformed alphabet. Although there were some opponents of Vuk's language reform, his principles were finally accepted and realized in Serbian literature and linguistics. Vuk's language was a base upon which the modern Serbian standard language was developed.
Notable quotes
"Language is guardian of a nation. As long as the language exists, as long as we keep it, love it, and respect it, as long as we write in it and speak it; the nation exists as well, and it doesn't flow over into another one, nor it will disappear."
— Vuk St. Karadzic, Serbian slavicist