Communication Quote by Christopher Ricks

Language is by its very nature a communal thing...

— T. E. Hulme

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation.

— Edward Sapir

“Language is a bountiful gift and its usage, an elaboration of community and society, is a sacred work. Language and usage evolve over time:…

— Muriel Barbery

One does, after all, take on many of the givens of a society when one takes on its language.

— Alma Guillermoprieto

Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.

— Francois Rabelais

On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an…

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.

— Don DeLillo

“The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same world with different labels attached ... We see and hear…

— Edward Sapir

Language is by its very nature a communal thing; that is, it expresses never the exact thing but a compromise - that which is…

— Anonymous

Changes in language often reflect the changing values of a culture.

— Ravi Zacharias

“All language is a set of symbols whose use among its speakers assumes a share past”

— Jorge Luis Borges

Language is a social event.

— Richard Rodriguez