Quotes of: Linguistics Keyword

Sending a message on a mobile phone is not the most natural of ways to communicate. The keypad isn't linguistically sensible.

David Crystal

My opinions about human nature are shared by many psychologists, linguists, and biologists, not to mention philosophers and scholars going back centuries.

Steven Pinker

If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'

A. R. Ammons

Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law

Course in General Linguistics

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

Course in General Linguistics

In life we are separated by boundaries political, cultural, ethical, linguistical and psychical. But in death we are all united, for all afterlife is similarly unknown

Prabhukrishna M

A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.

Roman Jakobson

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

Kenneth L. Pike

By sincerity, a man gains physical, mental and linguistic straightforwardness, and harmonious tendency; that is, congruence of speech and action.

Mahavira

Music is such a great communicator. It breaks down linguistic barriers, cultural barriers, it basically reaches out. That's when rock n' roll succeeds, and that's what virtuosity is all about.

The Edge

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.

Moses Mendelssohn

The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.

Ferdinand de Saussure

Intended to serve as an introduction to both the linguistic and also the practical study of spoken English.

Henry Sweet

The Devil fights from behind barricades of linguistic complexity, but the war of words will be won by those armed only with simplistic truths

Dean Cavanagh

You don't talk to a linguist without having what you say taken down and used in evidence against you at some point in time.

David Crystal

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

I come from a short fiction background, and my mom is a poet, so I've always read poetry; I've always had a lot of different influences both linguistically and musically.

Lorde

It is possible to be a great novelist - that is, to render a veracious account of your times - and a bad writer - that is, an incompetent practitioner of applied linguistics.

Angela Carter

Men don't need linguistic talent; they just need courage and words.

Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love

If there's any interaction between genes and languages, it is often languages that influence genes, since linguistic differences between populations lessen the chance of genetic exchange between them.

Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza

The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost and what is gained in the linguistic transition.

Marilyn Hacker