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             A vocable (word, idiom or expression) is considered

* a) a term, then

* b) a literary term, then

* c) an international literary term when

             * 1- it has been actually recorded a number of times in the DITL thesaurus through extensive lexicographical surveys on important international critical documents (such as the proceedings of the ICLA, or the FILLM, widely circulated literary journals – the PMLA, or the RLC Revue de Littérature Comparée –, recognized manuals of literature, etc., to the exception of other dictionaries of literary terms);

             * 2- with an acceptation which is specific to literary studies, no matter whether the term belongs to literature itself, or comes from other epistemological horizons such as psychoanalysis, political science, economy, history, sociology, philosophy, etc.;

             * 3- and it has been correlated to a number of other vocables granted the same status of a literary term (see extracts from the DITL thesaurus on this site).