COMMUNICATIVE FUNCTIONS OF GIROLAMO DE RADA'S LITERARY WORK TREATED IN THE HIGH SCHOOL TEXTBOOK "THE ALBANIAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE"

The aim of our research is to consider presentation the communication functions of Girolamo De Rada's1 literary work presented in high school textbooks. Used methodology: analysis and comparison of the four different editions of the textbook "The Albanian language and literature", grade 10 of the high school system, presented by the following publishing houses: Pegi; Albas; Mediaprint; Centrum Production. Literature is a form of communication. The communicative functions of literature stand on the fact that, both the written and spoken literature address to certain and unpredictable masses of public. Literary communication coincides with the general scheme of the linguistic communication, yet in a more complicated way. This writing intends to look into the ways the emotional, promotional, referential, meta-linguistic, factual and poetical functions which have been reflected in the literary work "Songs of Milosao" by Girolamo De Rada, a lyrical romance which has been introduced to grade 10 of the high school textbook "The Albanian language and literature". The textbook itself has been edited and presented by different publishing houses. The research focused on finding to what degree the up-mentioned functions are introduced in this literary work as well as the ways they have been presented to the students in the book.