Communication Quote by Noam Chomsky

I have resisted the term sociolinguistics for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is…

— William Labov

There is a narrow class of uses of language where you intend to communicate. Communication refers to an effort to get people to understand…

— Noam Chomsky

I think a very important aspect of language has to do with the establishment of social relations and interactions. Often, this is described as…

— Noam Chomsky

I think language is a system that we have devised to negotiate a series of more amorphous entities. It's a layer you can use…

— Blake Butler

No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when…

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Language develops by interacting with other people talking to you.

— Jean Berko Gleason

Language is a social art.

— Willard Van Orman Quine

Social groups in society don't swim about in some kind of harmonious melting pot. We rub against each other from very different and opposing…

— Michael Rosen

Language is a social event.

— Richard Rodriguez

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

— T. E. Hulme

The most fundamental feature of language is that it allows us to exchange thought. In conversations we connect the private world of our minds…

— Kumar Anupam

Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very…

— Edward Sapir