Communication Quote by Ferdinand de Saussure

When we put words together - adjective with noun, noun with verb, verb with object - we start to talk to each other.

— Donald Hall

Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each…

— Anonymous

Words belong to each other.

— Virginia Woolf

Outside speech, the association that is made in the memory between words having something in common creates different groups, series, families, within which very…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.

— Rumi

The syntactic component of a grammar must specify, for each sentence, a deep structure that determines its semantic interpretationand a surface structure that determines…

— Noam Chomsky

Speech is external thought, and thought internal speech.

— Antoine Rivarol

Speech is the index of the mind.

— Seneca the Younger

Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both

— John Andrew Holmes

According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.

— Roy Blount, Jr

Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.

— Ferdinand de Saussure

All the words in the English language are divided into nine great classes. These classes are called the Parts of Speech. They are Article,…

— Joseph Devlin