Linguistic Quotes

Linguistic philosophers continue to argue that probably music is not a language, that is in the philosophical debate. Another point of view is to say that music is a very profound language.
Robert Fripp

Music, Another, Point

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.
P. D. James

War, Political, Down

There may be no more-radioactive term in the English language than what we now almost always refer to as the 'n-word' - itself a coy means of linguistic sidestepping that is a sign of how perilous it is to utter the thing in full, even in conversations about language.
Jeffrey Kluger

May, Means, Language

Older siblings get more total-immersion mentoring with their parents before younger siblings come along. As a result, they get an IQ and linguistic advantage because they are the exclusive focus of their parents' attention.
Jeffrey Kluger

Parents, Focus, Before

If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the powers of an elected president.
A. N. Wilson

Political, Giving, Her

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

Important, Lost, Both

Logical positivists have never taken psychology into account in their epistemology, but they affirm that logical beings and mathematical beings are nothing but linguistic structures.
Jean Piaget

Nothing, Taken, Logical

It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.
Robert Morgan

Experience, Far, Less

Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.
Jean Piaget

Nothing, Logic, Structures

No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism.
Edward Sapir

Important, Single, Language

A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
Ferdinand de Saussure

Ideas, System, Sound

Literature that keeps employing new linguistic and formal modes of expression to draft a panorama of society as a whole while at the same time exposing it, tearing the masks from its face - for me that would be deserving of an award.
Elfriede Jelinek

Time, Society, Same

Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male?
Carol P. Christ

God, Why, Everyone

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

Music, Poetry, Words

In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics.
Ferdinand de Saussure

Different, Study, Spirit

English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.
Roy Blount, Jr.

Around, Themselves, English

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

Sounds, Era, Opened

Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.
Roman Jakobson

Two, Sign, Succession

Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.
Roman Jakobson

Two, Physical, Sounds

Although many texters enjoy breaking linguistic rules, they also know they need to be understood.
David Crystal

Enjoy, Rules, Understood

The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people - some well-known, most totally unknown - who left a permanent linguistic fingerprint on our orthography.
David Crystal

Story, Left, English

If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible link between the objective world and the linguistic world is found in structure, and structure alone.
Alfred Korzybski

Alone, Words, Between

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.
Paul de Man

Death, Name, Displaced

There is no linguistic war in Montreal.
Pierre Moreau

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

Study, Both, English

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