Castelli, Alberto (2026) Words fail us: The crisis of language. VERBUM : ANALECTA NEOLATINA, 27 (1). pp. 7-32. ISSN 1585-079X (print); 1588-4309 (online)
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Abstract
Modernity has ushered in an increasing detachment from life; a divorce ofsorts is taking place between the individual and the cultural context. Given certainthoughts and feelings, words fail us. It seems that we fail to communicate, to under-stand, to carve significance beyond the text. I write this manuscript as a feature ofcontemporary Zeitgeist, as a response to modern uncertainties about humanity. Mybelief is that the contract between language and reality is broken; thus, we lost ouronly hope to make contact with reality.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | aesthetics, language, modernism, postmodernism, silence |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > P0 Philology. Linguistics / filológia, nyelvészet |
| SWORD Depositor: | MTMT SWORD |
| Depositing User: | MTMT SWORD |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Jul 2026 09:30 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Jul 2026 09:30 |
| URI: | https://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/242848 |
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