“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
The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate… — D.T. Suzuki 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
“Of the 193 recognized countries in the world, only politically isolated North Korea is considered monolingual.” — Nataly Kelly Copy Share Image
In school, I studied psychology, linguistics, neuroscience. I understand that there is a real lack of respect for the brain. — Aloe Blacc Copy Share Image
They arose in my mind as 'given' things, and as they came, separately, so too the links grew. An absorbing, though continually… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“It seems that in almost all societies, the attitudes that people have to language change is basically the same. People everywhere tend… — Terry Crowley Copy Share Image
To my mind this makes psychedelics central to any political reconstruction, because these are the only force in nature that actually dissolve… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Older siblings get more total-immersion mentoring with their parents before younger siblings come along. As a result, they get an IQ and… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
“It was one year, to the day, that his wife had died. "Passed away," was the term that everyone liked to use.… — Phaedra Patrick Copy Share Image
“If we should be worrying about anything to do with the future of English, it should not be that the various strands… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I went to Briar Cliff College initially, and then I transferred to Georgetown University, because I was a Russian major, and I… — P. J. Soles Copy Share Image
There may be no more-radioactive term in the English language than what we now almost always refer to as the 'n-word' -… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
“You will criticize me, reader, for writing in a style six hundred years removed from the events I describe, but you came… — Ada Palmer 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
Before you judge me as some kind of 'anything goes' language heathen, let me just say that I'm not against usage standards.… — Arika Okrent Copy Share Image
The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies,… — Michael Eric Dyson 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
“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
“Linguistics is arguably the most hotly contested property in the academic realm. It is soaked with the blood of poets, theologians, philosophers,… — Russ Rymer Copy Share Image
In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional… — Ferdinand de Saussure 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
“But Spanish and English aren't different languages, only extreme dialects of Latin. It's almost possible to translate word for word. Translation from… — Natasha Pulley Copy Share Image
A word is an arbitrary label - that's the foundation of linguistics. But many people think otherwise. They believe in word magic:… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The words we choose can build communities, reunite loved ones, and inspire others. They can be a catalyst for change. However, our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we are, somewhere, the deep impulse which generates semiosis, And yet we recognize ourselves only as semiosis in progress, signifying systems… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Language corresponds only to itself. Intellectuals suffer from that. And once you begin to question language, you cannot stop at studying linguistics.… — Martin Walser Copy Share Image
“The task of general semiotics is that of tracing a single formal structure which underlies all these phenomena, this structure being that… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Dr. Karel Culik is an outstanding applied mathematician, a specialist in algebra, logic, computer sciences and mathematical linguistics. In 1965, he visited… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
From now on I will consider a language to be a set (finite or infinite) of sentences, each finite in length and… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Syntax is the study of the principles and processes by which sentences are constructed in particular languages. Syntactic investigation of a given… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
In my own professional work I have touched on a variety of different fields. I've done work in mathematical linguistics, for example,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Das mine!' protested Ava, Bennie's daughter, affirming Alex's recent theory that language acquisition involved a phase of speaking German. She snatched a… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
