Best Linguistics Quotes

48 Linguistics quotes by 37 unique authors

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
I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people. — Matthew McConaughey
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
A word is an arbitrary label - that's the foundation of linguistics. But many people think otherwise. They believe in word magic: that uttering a… — Steven Pinker
Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs. — Douglas Adams
In an instant he became aware that the tourist was about to try his own peculiar brand of linguistics, which meant that he would speak… — Terry Pratchett
I went to Briar Cliff College initially, and then I transferred to Georgetown University, because I was a Russian major, and I was one of… — P. J. Soles
The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies, black studies, history,… — Michael Eric Dyson
I joined a organisation called Wycliffe Bible Translators that had the objective of translating the Bible into all the languages of the world, and to… — Daniel Everett
Dr. Karel Culik is an outstanding applied mathematician, a specialist in algebra, logic, computer sciences and mathematical linguistics. In 1965, he visited the linguistics research… — Noam Chomsky
At the same time we overlap, because, I do linguistics, and Ben did a first degree in Linguistics at Lancaster University, so he knows some… — David Crystal
I don't understand half of what you say and the other half doesn't make sense. — Rock Cowles
Beautiful life, often I dream that I can bring my niggas. Conservatives dont understand slang linguistics. The burbs talking like the hood will change with… — Nas
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… — Jeff Stilson

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