Areas Quote by Paulo Freire

Language was invented to ask questions.

— Eric Hoffer

Language was invented to ask questions. Answers may be given by grunts and gestures, but questions must be spoken. Humanness came of age when…

— Eric Hoffer

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

Of course language arose in a Darwinian biological world, because that's all there is, but that world relates only superficially to the pop-biology that…

— Noam Chomsky

Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do…

— Daniel Everett

The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

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

Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human.

— Karl Marx

Language is the most elementary aspect to our humanness, probably. In addition to that, it's the embodiment, it's the apotheosis of the human experience,…

— George Carlin

“The first language humans had was gestures. There was nothing primitive about this language that flowed from people’s hands, nothing we say now that…

— Nicole Krauss

The fact that all our ape cousins - chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans - can acquire signs - is powerful evidence that our hominid ancestors'…

— Roger Fouts

Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about…

— Noam Chomsky