“Should data be treated as a language, as fundamental to our existence as our linguistic substrates?” — Roger Spitz Copy Share Image
A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
“As long as human beings speak different languages, the need for translation will continue.” — Nataly Kelly Copy Share Image
I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people. — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
As many languages you know, as many times you are a human being — Tomas Garrigue Masaryk Copy Share Image
The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics. — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
If you focus on literature through only one small element of it, like the more scientific element of linguistics, then where is… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image
The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Everyone stared at me now. I’d studied linguistics a long time ago. A little philology too, the study of languages from analyzing… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms. — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
Pharoahe Monch is like an eloquent linguistics professor moonlighting as a rhyme serial killer terrorist, challenging the listeners' I.Q. while daring him… — Kool Moe Dee Copy Share Image
The job of the linguist, like that of the biologist or the botanist, is not to tell us how nature should behave,… — Arika Okrent Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything like what many philosophers and linguists have supposed.… — Donald Davidson Copy Share Image
I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man's ability to use language that makes him the dominant species on the… — Jeff Stilson Copy Share Image
I joined a organisation called Wycliffe Bible Translators that had the objective of translating the Bible into all the languages of the… — Daniel Everett Copy Share Image
“Ho ho ho, tell me why you are not at home' is something Santa Claus could ask you if you stayed in… — Jakub Marian Copy Share Image
“Linguists are no different from any other people who spend more than nineteen hours a day pondering the complexities of grammar and… — Ronald Langacker Copy Share Image
I never thought of that one, that linguistics could be driving cultural things. There are some thoughts that that does happen in… — Hal Whitehead Copy Share Image
It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that… — Ferdinand de Saussure Copy Share Image
“Psycholinguists argue about whether language reflects our perception of reality or helps create them. I am in the latter camp. Take the… — Hal Herzog Copy Share Image
“Rasa has two primary meanings: 'feeling' and 'meaning'. As 'feeling' it is one of the traditional Javanese five senses - seeing, hearing,… — Geertz Clifford Copy Share Image
General editors' preface The growth of translation studies as a separate discipline is a success story of the 1980s. The subject has… — Lawrence Venuti Copy Share Image
It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of Chomsky's syntax,… — John Searle Copy Share Image
“The entire destiny of modern linguistics is in fact determined by Saussure's inaugural act through which he separates the ‘external’ elements of… — Pierre Bourdieu Copy Share Image
“Is it possible to make a sharp distinction between the content and the the form, between the personality of the Texas auctioneer… — Cleanth Brooks Copy Share Image
“We believe that information is an enlightening agent, but I can assure you it is not. We consume information, but we can’t… — R.F. Georgy Copy Share Image
“If metaphors require an underlying cultural framework, then the heiroglyphhic language of the gods cannot be a merely primitive stage of human… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“The language looks rather different when you look at a lot of it at once.” — John Sinclair Copy Share Image
Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“It is possible to be a great novelist - that is, to render a veracious account of your times - and a… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“Chomsky's writings are "classics" in Mark Twain's sense: something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.” — Stephen Pinker Copy Share Image
“Reading a book in the foreign language without using a dictionary? Are you sceptical? Don’t be! This is one of the keys… — Mihály Hevesi Copy Share Image
“What the survival of threatened languages means, perhaps, is the endurance of dozens, hundreds, thousands of subtly different notions of truth.” — Mark Abley Copy Share Image
“By claiming that our words are too hard to understand, the media perpetuates the idea that WE are too hard to understand,… — C. N. Lester Copy Share Image
“I never studied linguistics, Yet I became a linguistic enigma. The sun never studied nuclear fusion, Yet it is our planet's nuclear… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
