28 Linguistic Quotes for You to Enjoy

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 Generation Political Down Believe Correctness Spine My Generation Political Correctness Linguistic Sends Form Against Who Fascism

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

Mathematics Nothing Logic Structures Linguistic Specialised

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

Man Action Harmonious Physical Mental Tendency Sincerity Linguistic Gains Speech

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

People Queen Political Giving President Would Some Only Had Support Powers Intellectual Linguistic Elected Skills Many Her Elizabeth Elizabeth I

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 World Possible Objective Structure Only Between Obviously Territory Linguistic Link Then Maps Found Actual Things

I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic. Daniel Alarcon

Discipline Sit Down Think About Structure More Write Does How Impose Intellectual Linguistic Sentences Really Certain Hard Mapping

There's an old little jingle: 'The chief use of slang is to show that you're one of the gang.' What that means is that every social group has its own linguistic bonding mechanism. If there's a group of lawyers, they have their own slang. If there's a group of doctors, they have their own slang, and so on. David Crystal

You Old Doctors Own Group Every Lawyers Linguistic Chief Little Social Social Group Means Use Show Gang Mechanism Slang Bonding

The Internet has given us 10 or 15 new styles of communication: long messages like blogging, and then short messages like texting and tweeting. I see it all as part of an expanding array of linguistic possibilities. David Crystal

My interest in the linguistic differences between women and men grew from research I conducted early in my career on conversations between speakers of different ethnic and regional backgrounds. Deborah Tannen

Women Men Differences Research Backgrounds Between Linguistic Women And Men Different Grew Conversations Interest Regional Ethnic Speakers Early Career

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 Me Face Society Panorama Would Would-Be Masks New Employing Linguistic Same Same Time Formal Literature While Modes Whole Exposing Tearing Award Expression Deserving Keeps Draft

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

Differences System Combined Ideas Sound Linguistic Series

In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of a large and growing School of English Studies, in which no regular provision had as yet been made for the linguistic specialist. J. R. R. Tolkien

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

Result Focus Parents Before Older More Mentoring Advantage Attention Exclusive Along Come Because Linguistic Get Younger Sibling

My work on what is called 'deep reading' explores the range of linguistic, cognitive, and affective processes that underlie not only the emergence of creative thought when we read but also the development and strengthening of capacities like empathy and critical analysis that we can apply to the rest of our lives. Maryanne Wolf

Work Creative Thought Rest Reading Analysis Our Our Lives Range Critical Emergence Only Empathy Development Like Also Read Affective Linguistic Processes Capacities Deep Lives Cognitive Apply Strengthening

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

Death Name Linguistic Predicament Displaced

In my experience, copy editors, like the stalwart staff I've worked with and learned from in my 34 years at 'TIME,' are linguistic conservatives - the keepers of the flame ignited by the Strunk-White 'Elements of Style,' published in full in 1957 and chosen by 'TIME' as one of the 100 most influential nonfiction books of the past century. Richard Corliss

Time Experience Style Past Flame Conservatives Books Like Most Learned Nonfiction Editors Years Linguistic Staff Influential Century Worked Full Chosen Elements Published Keepers Copy

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

You Experience Language Philosophical Immediate How How Far Go Discovering Linguistic Than Literary Far Create Less Preoccupation Elementary Thing

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

Every Located Sign Linguistic Succession Axes Axis Two

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

Photography Physiological Investigation Opened New New Era Era Sounds Linguistic Up

The most appealing side-effect of Sri Lankan cricket from where I stand, shuffling words, has been linguistic. Romesh Gunesekera

Words Cricket Has-Been Most Been Linguistic Where Stand Appealing Shuffling

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

Music Great Down Out About Rock Rock-N-Roll Cultural Linguistic Roll Breaks Succeeds Communicator Barriers Basically

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