Activity Quote by Roland Barthes

With sociolinguistics, after covering the basics of the field, I focused on discourse analysis.

— Carrie Brownstein

“In critical linguistic research, ‘discourse’ often denotes text and image in real-use contexts. The nature of discourse is multi-faceted: discourse itself constructs ideas and…

— Helen Ringrow

“Literature is the right use of language irrespective of the subject or reason of utterance.”

— Evelyn Waugh

The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than…

— Leslie Fiedler

As I say, I'm a discourse advocate. What form it comes is less important to me than the fact that there is discourse.

— Jim Lehrer

“In the real world, writing is not artificially separated into specific discourses. It is blended for effect.”

— Kelly Gallagher

“However, though we may never achieve perfect transparency, we can limit the impact of personal bias upon the process of interpretation by giving the…

— Dalai Lama XIV

The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified…

— George Edward Woodberry

I think what matters most in literary work is the context, not the text.

— Andrea Hirata

“1. Speak only when you have something to say. 2. Speak what you want to say and say it in the way you want…

— Hu Shih

“As a writer, one spends a lifetime journeying into the heart of language, trying to minimize, if not eliminate, the distance between language and…

— Arundhati Roy

Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of…

— Jacques Derrida