Quotes Tagged With :linguistics

Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's linguistic....

Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.

If you're teaching, say, physics, there's no point in persuading a student that you're right. You want....

Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary detective....

Poetry translation is like playing a piano sonata on a trombone.

I should think a dead language would be rather boring, sociallyspeaking.

Finally, I would like to point out that now in the age of English, choosing a language policy is not....

Conversations are like dances. Two people effortlessly move in step with one another, usually anticipating....

It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve....

All communication involves faith; indeed, some linguisticians hold that the potential obstacles to acts....