Linguistics Quotes

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When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after… — Noam Chomsky
If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or… — A. R. Ammons
Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics. — Roman Jakobson
I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man's ability to use language that makes him the dominant species on the planet.That may be.… — Jeff Stilson
They arose in my mind as 'given' things, and as they came, separately, so too the links grew. An absorbing, though continually interrupted labour (especially,… — J.R.R. Tolkien
The contradiction so puzzling to the ordinary way of thinking comes from the fact that we have to use language to communicate our inner experience,… — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of Chomsky's syntax, with the results… — John Searle
Linguistics is a good way of defining the culture of a brand. The vocabulary used by sports and lifestyle brands - running, fitness, training, motorsports… — Francois-Henri Pinault
The careful scholarship of the dedicated amateur mycophile R. Gordon Wasson reads like an exciting scientific detective story. Moreover, his willingness to pursue the quest… — Weston La Barre
Linguistics is our best tool for bringing about social change and SF is our best tool for testing such changes before they are implemented in… — Suzette Haden Elgin
Pharoahe Monch is like an eloquent linguistics professor moonlighting as a rhyme serial killer terrorist, challenging the listeners' I.Q. while daring him or her to… — Kool Moe Dee
A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms. — Roman Jakobson
Daniel Dennett is our best current philosopher. He is the next Bertrand Russell. Unlike traditional philosophers, Dan is a student of neuroscience, linguistics, artificial intelligence,… — Marvin Minsky
General editors' preface The growth of translation studies as a separate discipline is a success story of the 1980s. The subject has developed in many… — Lawrence Venuti
Linguistics becomes an ever eerier area, like I feel like I'm in Oz, Just trying to tell it like it was. — Ogden Nash
According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary. — Roy Blount, Jr.
In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance,… — Ferdinand de Saussure
It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies upon… — Ferdinand de Saussure
It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is evident… — Ferdinand de Saussure
Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch… — Ferdinand de Saussure

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