SOME OPINIONS AND COMMENTS ON LINGUISTIC MEANS OF MAGIC AND WITCHCRAFT IN FAIRY TALES
Keywords:
linguistic means, linguistic units, phonemes, lexemes, morphemes, legacy of storytelling,balance of black and whiteAbstract
Linguistic means or messages can be analyzed as linguistic units.
Some scholars call language units speech-specific units they describe by adding, because in linguistics, language and speech are related to each other,one cannot exist without the other. And other scientists distinguish language and speech units from each other. But still in linguistics, there is no clear measure for defining language and speech units. This article compare different opinions and comments of few scholars on the given issue.
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