Change Quote by Suzette Haden Elgin

Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences.

— Samuel R. Delany

My linguistics is pretty theoretical.

— Noam Chomsky

It is only since linguistics has become more aware of its object of study, i.e. perceives the whole extent of it, that it is…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies…

— Ferdinand de Saussure

“Linguistics is arguably the most hotly contested property in the academic realm. It is soaked with the blood of poets, theologians, philosophers, philologists, psychologists,…

— Russ Rymer

At the same time we overlap, because, I do linguistics, and Ben did a first degree in Linguistics at Lancaster University, so he knows…

— David Crystal

On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an…

— Jean-Francois Lyotard

“Because language and society are so closely linked, it is possible, in some cases, to encourage social change by directing attention towards linguistic reflections…

— Peter Trudgill

“The entire destiny of modern linguistics is in fact determined by Saussure's inaugural act through which he separates the ‘external’ elements of linguistics from…

— Pierre Bourdieu

Grammar is the analysis of language.

— Edgar Allan Poe

The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree…

— Anonymous

Language is a social event.

— Richard Rodriguez