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A good writer, a few words: the mindset of communicating.

Bad language is not only bad and harmful: it is also ineffective; it is fraudulent. Speaking badly means not being understood; and whoever does not understand does not trust. He thinks there is deception, that you are there to screw him. So a speech, written or spoken, first of all

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The language of propaganda: 'Il Fatto Quotidiano'

Observing the language of the press linked to the phenomenon of grillism is an excellent method to grasp the systems of thought and methods of propaganda. Let's try to draw some lines starting from ilfattoquotidiano.it. By analyzing the semantics and lexicon of titles and articles, we can easily see how often terms occur

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Between growth and merit: the language of job advertisements

From a linguistic analysis of the recurring expressions in job advertisements and in the descriptions that companies provide regarding the mission and the search for new staff "to join the team", it turns out that, in addition to there being little material for the more standardized, it always oscillates between

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The master

When at last, after having almost destroyed it by dint of knocking, the door was thrown open, everyone in the inn - with their throats still warm from singing and mugs in hand - stood still, staring at the newcomer as if he had fallen from the sky. "Do you have any good wine?" he shouted at that

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The empire

He asked Marco Kublai: - You who explore around and see the signs, will be able to tell me towards which future the favorable winds push us. - For these ports I would not know how to trace the route on the map or fix the date of landing. Sometimes a glimpse that opens in the middle is enough for me

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The tolérance

"Voici la preuve, s'il en fallait, de la difficulté de faire passer le message de la tolérance, surtout chez ceux qui sont victimes de intolérance!" Beonoît Duteurtre, Gaieté parisienne, Gallimard, Collection Folio, 1998, p. 155.

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Fictions

Since the characters in this novel are real, any resemblance to imaginary figures would be fortuitous. Warning from R. Queneau to La dimanche de la vie.

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Philology

Philology is that honorable art that demands one thing from its lover above all, to stand aside, to leave time, to become silent, to become slow, being an art and a skill as a goldsmith of the word, which must perform a very fine careful work and achieves nothing. if it doesn't reach it slow. But just for

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City layers

Traveling by bus is like embarking on a path of thought. I observe the city and look for its constant elements, its layers, its structures. The city is made as if by superimposing glossy sheets on an overhead projector. The drawings of the subsequent sheets hide more or less large parts of those

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