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Language is a spiritual mansion in which you live and nobody has the right to evict you.
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The whole of language is a continuous process of metaphor, and the history of semantics is an aspect of the history of culture; language is at the same time a living thing and a museum of fossils of life and civilisations.
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Language is the house of Being.
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A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
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I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.
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A parsimony of words prodigal of sense.
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Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.
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Language is the medium of our thoughts.
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Language is magic: it makes things appear and disappear.
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Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.
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Language is the light of the mind.
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Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information.
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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 evident that this science can make a contribution to a range of studies that will be of interest to almost anyone.
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Language is memory and metaphor.
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The question is whether distinct cognitive structures can be identified, which interact in the real use of language and linguistic judgments, the grammatical system being one of these. Certainly,
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Language is the picture and counterpart of thought.
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To perceive how language works, what pitfalls it conceals, what its possibilities are, is to comprehend a crucial aspect of the complicated business of living the life of a human being.
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Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.
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All our work, our whole life is a matter of semantics, because words are the tools with which we work, the material out of which laws are made, out of which the Constitution was written. Everything depends on our understanding of them.
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the brain of a child learning a language can cope with a mind-boggling amount of linguistic complexity.
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Product of a myriad various minds and contending tongues, compact of obscure and minute association, a language has its own abundant and often recondite laws, in the habitual and summary recognition of which scholarship consists.
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There are very deep and restrictive principles that determine the nature of human language and are rooted in the specific character of the human mind
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The topics which language limits us to aren't much worth discussing in the first place.
(attrib: F.L. Vanderson)
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Language is the close-fitting dress of thought.
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Grammar has qualities, shapes and forms.
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Our language places us in a cultural continuum, linking us to the past, and showing our meanings also to future fellow-speakers.
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Language helps form the limits of our reality.
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Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations.
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In the lives of individuals and societies, language is a factor of greater importance than any other. For the study of language to remain solely the business of a handful of specialists would be a quite unacceptable state of affairs.
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For most people, language is our primary interface with each other and with the external world.
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Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.
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Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.
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The ability to think for one's self depends upon one's mastery of the language.
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Being that can be understood is language.
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Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
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Language is the work of man, of a being from whom permanence and stability can not be derived.
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Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.
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Language is, without a doubt, the most momentous and at the same time the most mysterious product of the human mind.
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We think in one language and feel in another.
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the autonomy of syntax;
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Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those restricted to one branch of languages or another.
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In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the
culture.
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There is an extraordinary power in the possession of a language.
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Language is a finding-place not a hiding place.
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The language we use is extremely powerful. It is the frame through which we perceive and describe ourselves and our picture of the world.
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Linguistics becomes an ever eerier area, like I feel like I'm in Oz, Just trying to tell it like it was.
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We think in language. We think in words. Language is the landscape of thought.
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Language conveys a certain power. It is one of the instruments of domination. It is carefully guarded by the superior people because it is one of the means through which they conserve their supremacy.
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Language is something that springs from the biological matrix, and the neurological matrix, within us.
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Learning the rules that govern intelligible speech is an inculcation into normalized language, where the price of not conforming is the loss of intelligibility itself.
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Reality is captured in the categorical nets of Language only at the expense of fatal distortion.
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The conventions of language reveal the ways we see the world.
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What is it to know a variety of languages, but merely to have a variety of sounds express the same idea? Original thought is ore of the mind; language is but the stamp and coinage by which it is put into circulation.
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Language is how we hack other people's brains. It's how we make them see things the way we want them to see them.
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Language is generated by the intellect and generates the intellect.
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The limits of our cognition are not defined by the limits of our language.
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Grammar is the breathing power for the life of language
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The language in which we express our ideas has a strong influence on our thought processes.
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I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.
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Bilingualism is for me the fundamental problem of linguistics.
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Language is not only a means of speech and thought, it is a bridge with the significant function of bringing the wealth of the past to our day and conveying today's heritage and our new compositions to the future.
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I am only describing language, not explaining anything.
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We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.
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You cannot begin to deal with terms, propositions, and arguments - the elements of thought - until you can penetrate beneath the surface of language.
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Language: the one tool that enables us to grasp hold of our lives and transcend our fate by understanding it.
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The gift of language is the single human trait that marks us all genetically, setting us apart from the rest of life.
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Language is where the tongue fails itself over & over again.
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Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.
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Language is the archives of history.
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Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.
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We think in language. The quality of our thoughts and ideas can only be as good as the quality of our language.
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[Language] can serve as a medium through which we create new understandings and new realities as we begin to talk about them. In fact, we don't talk about what we see; we see only what we can talk about.
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Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.
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English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new meanings, and we borrow new words from any language that intrudes into our intellectual environment.
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Language is me, in a way. Really, I feel it.
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Language isn't about the words. It's about the transfer of meaning.
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Language forces us to perceive the world as man presents it to us.
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Language is a living thing
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Language lives in the mind, moves around with the tongue and gets its meaning in action!
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Linguists are no different from any other people who spend more than nineteen hours a day pondering the complexities of grammar and its relationship to practically everything else in order to prove that language is so inordinately complicated that it is impossible in principle for people to talk.
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[Language allows you] to implant a thought from your mind directly into someone else's mind, and they can attempt to do the same to you, without either of you having to perform surgery.
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Languages shape the way we think, or don't.
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Despite every advancement, language remains the defining nexus of our humanity; it is where our knowledge and hope lie. It is the precondition of human tenderness, mightier than the sword but also infinitely more subtle and ultimately more urgent.
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If I program 'ware with an Anglo-Ubiq word and play it, you understand it," Scile said. "If I do the same with a word in Language, and play it to an Ariekes, I understand it, but to them it means nothing, because it's only sound, and that's not where the meaning lives. It needs a mind behind it.
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Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out.
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The communication of ideas requires a similitude of thought and language ...
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Language should find itself in the physical world, and not end up locked in an idea in somebody's head.
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Language is insight itself.
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Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.
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Thinking is not the ability to manipulate language; it's the ability to manipulate concepts.
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Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public.
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I had come to see language as an almost supernatural force, existing between people, bringing our brains, shielded in centimeter-thick skulls, into communion. A word meant something only between people, and life's meaning, its virtue, had something to do with the depth of the relationships we form.
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We are thus assisted by natural objects in the expression of particular meanings. But how great a language to convey such pepper-corn informations!
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Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.
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Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
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And language, ( ... ) is not just another faculty or skill, it is what makes thought possible, what seperates thought from nonthought, what seperates the human from the non human.
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It takes more than language to know what language can know.
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I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.
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Metaphor is embodied in language.