“ESPRESSIONE” ED “ESPRESSIVITÀ” IN UN TESTO DI ENNIO E SUA ANALISI LINGUISTICA
THE LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS OF A TEXT WRITTEN BY ENNIO, BASED ON THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN "EXPRESSION" AND "EXPRESSIVITY"

Summary/Abstract: The Linguistic Analysis of a Text Written by Ennio, Based on the Interplay between "Expression" and "Expressivity". Linguistic-textual analysis highlights certain parameters in a text that render it, as a whole, coherent with an acceptable definition of ‘text’: an operation that is evidently measured by the difficulty in assigning such a definition. This article will attempt to demonstrate that one specific piece by the poet Ennio, a founding father of Latin literature, must not be defined in the same way as a tongue twister or a divertissement but rather as an extraordinary example of textual cohesion. By means of the analysis suggested in this article it emerges, in fact, that Ennio conjugates the significative ponderousness with the ponderous significance of the text itself, establishing an exemplary balance between expression and expressiveness.

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