“To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture.”
― Frantz Fanon
“Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law”
― de Saussure, Ferdinand
"The vocabulary of endearment, complaint, and abuse, provides, I think, almost the only specimens of words that are purely emotional, words from which all imaginative or conceptual content has vanished, so that they have no function at all but to express or stimulate emotion, or both. And an examination of them soon convinces us that in them we see language at its least linguistic. We have come to the frontier between language and inarticulate vocal sounds. And at that frontier we find a two-way traffic going on.”
― C.S. Lewis, Studies in Words
Mariana!! I love your phrases!! They are so interesting. I like so much the first one. When we learn a language, we connect us to other way of thing and see the world. If you can realize, each culture is very related to language, in terms of expression. It is very funny learning a language bearing in mind culture. We can learn expressions and historical facts. Language can make us humans and culture make us to understand human beings. Good contribution!!
ResponderEliminarHi Lina, Thank you very much for your comment!
ResponderEliminarYeah, I found these quotes and I love them, these are really deepth and I do not know why but I feel amazed about the theme of Language and Culture!
Interesting quotes. I have another one, it’s not very deep but I really liked it when I heard it. It’s from a German teacher in a university in Texas. Her name is Janet Swaffar: “I can’t teach you German, but I can help you teach yourselves”.
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