Abstract EN:

First read as a children's fiction, Alice’s adventures in wonderland, Through the looking-glass and what Alice found there raises a few fundamental questions about our role as speakers and our ability to express our deepest thoughts. Therefore was it of utmost importance that Alice’s dream, which not only means self-expression, but also a sharp sense for clear thinking, should question the underground and other more obvious connections between sense, good sense and common sense as opposed to nonsense. Indeed, a closer scrutiny of those three major concepts intimates a new facet of the speaker whose figures of speech reveal his being, fettered though he might be by linguistic conventions that prevent him from expressing who he really is. Lewis Carroll’s masterwork would then become the mirror-image of our own plight and enable us to realize how constraining language can be when complying with conformism. Alice's adventures might then be a new "paradise lost", informing the reader about his linguistic relation to the world.