Linguistic Quotes

82 Linguistic quotes by 71 unique authors

Is the scene always visual? It can be aural, the frame can be linguistic: I can fall in love with a sentence spoken to me:… — Roland Barthes
Woman, then, stands in patriarchal culture as a signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out his… — Laura Mulvey
So what we can answer [as geneticists] is questions about biology, about biological ancestry. But to make any sense of that historically we have to… — Spencer Wells
I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose… — Daniel Alarcon
Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say… — Robert Fripp
The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people - some well-known, most totally unknown - who left a permanent linguistic fingerprint… — David Crystal
The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in… — Marilyn Hacker
A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography. — Roman Jakobson
I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to… — P.D. James
Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time… — Elfriede Jelinek
Older siblings get more total-immersion mentoring with their parents before younger siblings come along. As a result, they get an IQ and linguistic advantage because… — Jeffrey Kluger
There may be no more-radioactive term in the English language than what we now almost always refer to as the 'n-word' - itself a coy… — Jeffrey Kluger
If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic… — Alfred Korzybski
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience. — Robert Morgan
Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures. — Jean Piaget
Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures. — Jean Piaget
We're trapped in linguistic constructs... all that is is metaphor. — Robert Anton Wilson
Men don't need linguistic talent; they just need courage and words. — Helen Fisher
When it comes to girls (and in Colin's case, it so often did), everyone has a type. Colin Singleton's type was not physical but linguistic:… — John Green
Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard speech, and distracts… — John H. McWhorter

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