Literature vs Calling - What's the difference?
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Literature is a related term of calling. As nouns the difference between literature and calling is that literature is the body of all written works while calling is a strong urge to become religious. As a verb calling is .
literature Alternative forms
* literatuer (obsolete)
Noun
( en-noun)
The body of all written works.
The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group or culture.
All the papers, treatises etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.
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- The obvious question to ask at this point is: ‘Why posit the existence of a set of Thematic Relations (THEME, AGENT, INSTRUMENT, etc.) distinct from constituent structure relations?? The answer given in the relevant literature is that a variety of linguistic phenomena can be accounted for in a more principled way in terms of Thematic Functions than in terms of constituent structure relations.
Written fiction of a high standard.
- However, even “literary” science fiction rarely qualifies as literature , because it treats characters as sets of traits rather than as fully realized human beings with unique life stories. —Adam Cadre, 2008
Meronyms
* See also
Related terms
* letter
* literal
* literacy
* literate
* literary
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calling English
Verb
(head)
Noun
( en noun)
A strong urge to become religious.
A job or occupation.
*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= Engineers of a different kind
, passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers. Piling debt onto companies’ balance-sheets is only a small part of what leveraged buy-outs are about, they insist. Improving the workings of the businesses they take over is just as core to their calling , if not more so. Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster.}}
Synonyms
* vocation
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