Language Quote by Casey Miller Download Open image “All language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved” — Casey Miller ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language Prejudice Racism
Every language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved. — Casey Miller Copy Share Image
“How did we become so prejudiced by our idiosyncrasies?...We shared the same languages, but spoke of worlds so subtly different that language was not… — Miguel Syjuco Copy Share Image
I don't think language could have evolved if it was the only distinctive trait. It goes hand in hand with our ability to develop… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Of course language arose in a Darwinian biological world, because that's all there is, but that world relates only superficially to the pop-biology that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“In fact, it could be said that our language evolved for the express purpose of allowing us to participate in that interaction with others.… — Larry Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“Because language and society are so closely linked, it is possible, in some cases, to encourage social change by directing attention towards linguistic reflections… — Peter Trudgill Copy Share Image
It is as though the ancestors who made language and knew from what bestiality its use rescued them are saying to us: Beware of… — Chinua Achebe 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 humans, that… — Hal Whitehead Copy Share Image
The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share
Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
conventional English usage, including the generic use of masculine-gender words, often obscures the actions, the contributions, and sometimes the very presence of women. Turning… — Casey Miller Copy Share Image
From antiquity, people have recognized the connection between naming and power. — Casey Miller Copy Share Image
Every language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved. — Casey Miller Copy Share Image
Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly… — Casey Miller Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
The problem posed by indirect speech acts is the problem of how it is possible for the speaker to say one thing and mean… — John Searle Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
You're beautiful, cute, pretty, gorgeous, and fuck.. I ran out of words. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The words for what I want to say right now don't exist. Everything sounds…so cliché.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
