Coordination Quote by Herbert Marcuse

The functional language is a radically anti-historical language: operational rationality has little room and little use for historical reason.

— Herbert Marcuse

This (functional - E.W.) language controls by reducing the linguistic forms and symbols of reflection, abstraction, development, contradiction; by substituting images for concepts. It…

— Herbert Marcuse

What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly. Then if…

— Mark Twain

“8. Conditions of Dialogue The functional is what is practical. The only practical thing is the resolution of our fundamental problem: the realization of…

— Tom McDonough

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

Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use of language…

— Kenneth Burke

Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas.

— Dale Spender

The discourse on the Text should itself be nothing other than text, research, textual activity, since the Text is that social space which leaves…

— Roland Barthes

“One common function of arguments about language is to stand in for arguments on subjects people are reluctant to broach more directly.”

— Deborah Cameron

“Every language is a vast pattern-system, different from others, in which are culturally ordained the forms and categories by which the personality not only…

— Takeo Doi

Abstraction is an esoteric language.

— Eric Fischl

“Philosophers can never hope finally to formulate these metaphysical first principles. Weakness of insight and deficiencies of language stand in the way inexorably. Words…

— Alfred North Whitehead