@SuzanEraslan thank you so much, suzan! yes, it is a struggle sometimes. I majored in linguistics and literature in portuguese language and it is also very hard for me to convince people that it is not an obsolete subject at all.

my audience will be three or four specialists in education/professors of literature – this lecture is the final phase of an examination process to teach in a public university center in brazil. I have 1 hour to talk about this topic and how I'd put it into practice.