It would, of course, be hopeless to attempt to crowd into an international language all those local overtones of meaning which are so dear to the... →
Edward Sapir
The supposed inferiority of a constructed language to a national one on the score of richness of connotation is, of course, no criticism of the idea... →
Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is.
Jose Saramago
Image is an international language.
Marjane Satrapi
Americans think cinema is about storytelling; I don't believe that. I think it's a language and everyone has to find their own way of... →
The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a... →
Ferdinand de Saussure
A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.
Henceforth, language studies were no longer directed merely towards correcting grammar.
In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from... →
Linguistics will have to recognise laws operating universally in language, and in a strictly rational manner, separating general phenomena from those... →