Quotes Tagged With :linguistic

People's sense of how they talk tends to differ from the reality.

The language looks rather different when you look at a lot of it at once.

Why Does Mirroring Work? Scientific research suggests ‘mirroring’ techniques works because of the....

Early in my sales career, various sales trainers taught our teams how to use matching and mirroring to....

Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complimentary....

How is it that you can read this book? An obvious answer is because you know English. An equally obvious....

The rules of syntax and intonation and words matured over time into the system we have today because....

An entire mythology is stored within our language.

There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect....

Nothing is more usual than for philosophers to encroach upon the province of grammarians; and to engage....