“Of all the words that exist in any language only a bare minority are pure, unadulterated, original roots. The majority are "coined"… — Mario Pei Copy Share Image
“The language looks rather different when you look at a lot of it at once.” — John Sinclair 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
“There comes a time when one has to make up one’s mind and choose which side one is on. The catoptric universe… — Umberto Eco 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
Linguistics is our best tool for bringing about social change and SF is our best tool for testing such changes before they… — Suzette Haden Elgin Copy Share Image
“Two of the biggest problems with language is that you can say what you do not mean to say, and that you… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana 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
“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
“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
The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what… — Marilyn Hacker Copy Share Image
“But what is the opposite of fidelity?' asked Professor Playfair. He was approaching the end of his dialitic; now he needed only… — R.F. Kuang Copy Share Image
I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation… — P. D. James 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
“Does it distress you, reader, how I remind you of their sexes in each sentence? ‘Hers’ and ‘his’? Does it make you… — Ada Palmer Copy Share Image
Linguistics is a good way of defining the culture of a brand. The vocabulary used by sports and lifestyle brands - running,… — Francois-Henri Pinault 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
“In the world “out there,” there are no verbs, no speech events, and no adjacency pairs. There are particles of matter moving… — Duranti a Alessandro 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
A religious phenomenon will only be recognized as such if it is grasped at its own level, that is to say, if… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
“Don't you find it odd that two of the foremost symptoms of insanity are the hearing voices and talking to oneself? Is… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at… — Elfriede Jelinek 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
