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IMPROVEMENT OF LANGUAGE: A GENERAL REVIEW
Authors: Dilek TÜFEKÇİ CAN
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Language, which optimizes the act of speaking which is one of the most significant features of
human beings, is the most ancient thinking agents. As is the case in the previous centuries,
the language itself, whether it is the artefact of oral or written culture, has still been
sustaining its features as one of the most influential communication agents in the 21st
century. Since narrative related to language has a specific function semantically. Thus,
narrative includes every kind of written and visual agents from literature to rhetoric,
animated cartoon to ballet and opera to advertisement. The meaning beneath the surface of
the narrative is constructed as a result of various agents’ combination or separation. In other
words, written, visual and verbal narrative alter as a consequence of each agent’s interaction
with one another. Because of this fact, language improves in its historical process. Even
though the aim of this study is to review the language improvement in general, it is also of
great significance to define ‘language’ in terms of literary theories such as psychoanalytic
criticism, structuralism, semiology, intertextuality. Another aim of this study is to trace how
the language is formed and how it reached its polyphonic position in its historical process.
Even though written language, in other words literary language, which has formed its
systematic structure by disengaging itself from oral language, can be an artefact of social,
cultural and ideological structure, it still attempts at improving in the sense that the
subconscious structures, extraordinary syntax and intertextual references are employed by
the authors.