Noam Chomsky

When I was a college student and I got interested in linguistics the concern among students was, this is a lot of fun, but after we have done a structural analysis of every language in the world what's left? It was assumed there were basically no puzzles.

American Activist

J. R. R. Tolkien

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.

English Novelist

Alfred Korzybski

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.

Polish Scientist

A. N. Wilson

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.

English Writer

Jordan Peterson

I've studied authoritarianism for a very long time - for 40 years - and they're started by people's attempts to control the ideological and linguistic territory.

Canadian Psychologist

Ferdinand de Saussure

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

Swiss Educator

Jean Piaget

Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.

Swiss Psychologist

Matthew McConaughey

I have my own vocabulary. I love linguistics. That surprises people.

American Actor

Paul de Man

Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.

Belgian Critic

Aditi Rao Hydari

Good cinema has no regional or linguistic boundaries.

Indian Actress

Refers to one's skill level in different languages, not just English.

Language Proficiency

Often used when discussing academic subjects like linguistics or language education.

Academic Study

May imply understanding cultural nuances and idioms native to a language.

Cultural Understanding

Emphasizes a connection between people based on common language.

Shared Language

Related to groups formed on both social and language similarities.

Socio-Cultural Group

Can signify how people identify themselves through their native language.

Language Identification

Refers to grammar and syntax that govern how sentences are formed.

Language Rules

How thoughts are organized when speaking or writing in any language.

Structured Communication

The method of decoding patterns in texts, studying language use.

Text Analysis

 A technology known as linguistic text analysis has helped to identify four such common patterns in the subconscious language of deception. First, liars reference themselves less, when making deceptive statements. They write or talk more about others, often using the third person to distance and disassociate themselves from their lie,

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 linguists can determine relationships, trace specific steps in their evolution and even reconstruct earlier languages with no written records. Linguistics can even reveal other important historical clues, such as determining the geographic origins and lifestyles of ancient peoples based on which of their words were native,

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 strengthens those brain functions, allowing us to apply that strength to other activities. The most obvious difference between listening to music and playing it is that the latter requires fine motor skills, which are controlled in both hemispheres of the brain. It also combines the linguistic and mathematical precision,

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 Descriptivism, on the other hand, gives us insight into how our minds work and the instinctive ways in which we structure our view of the world. Ultimately, grammar is best thought of as a set of linguistic habits that are constantly being negotiated and reinvented by the entire group of language users.

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 You counted them. You named each one with a number, and the last number you said was the number of penguins. This is a little trick that you're taught to use as kids. You learn the number list and you learn how to apply it. A little linguistic trick. Well, some languages don't do this,

How language shapes the...

 or the well constructed plot of a novel conveyed through perfectly crafted sentences. Most importantly, the network of associations formed by ideasethesia may not only be similar to our linguistic network but may, in fact, be an integral part of it. Rather than the traditional view,

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 Oftentimes, forms of speech exist on a kind of linguistic continuum where they overlap with others, and the differences between them are gradual— not clear cut. And that’s the confounding beauty of the dynamic, diverse, and dazzling universe of human communication.

What makes a language......

 We all know that human beings are endowed with a capacity for language. And in fact, there are some case studies of feral children who were raised in the wild. And, when they're raised in the absence of a normal linguistic community

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 lexicon you can have even more fun with the language and casteth in the language I developed for Syfy's defiance I used linguistic evolution as a characterization tool as a way of basically giving insight into the

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 But comparative linguistics can help us by focusing on grammatical structure, patterns of sound changes, and certain core vocabulary. For example, after the 6th century,