LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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Grammatical and technical aspects of language
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Everyday usage/utterances of language
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Example: Suppose someone listens to a word in Hindi. That someone does not know Hindi. Hindi as a Langue (the grand structure) remains intact someone knows it or not. However, someone from our example will have to depend on Hindi as a Langue to be able to use it (Parole).
Detailed explanation-2: -Parole refers to the actual language use of individual people in their everyday lives, and is too erratic to be studied, according to Saussure. Langue is the shared social structure of language, and is richly structured as a system of systems.
Detailed explanation-3: -permission for a prisoner to be released before their period in prison is finished, with the agreement that they will behave well: He’s been released on parole. She hopes to be eligible for parole in three years. Reynolds was sentenced to life without parole. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
Detailed explanation-4: -Parole, in typical translation, means ‘speech’. Saussure, on the other hand, intended for it to mean both the written and spoken language as experienced in everyday life; it is the precise utterances and use of langue.