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Konstanz, Germany

University of Konstanz

Language and Literary Studies

Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften

Language: German Studies in German

Studies in German

University website: www.uni-konstanz.de

degree: Dr. phil.

Language

Language is a system that consists of the development, acquisition, maintenance and use of complex systems of communication, particularly the human ability to do so; and a language is any specific example of such a system.

Language

Evolution teaches us the original purpose of language was to ritualize men's threats and curses, his spells to compel the gods; communication came later.

Gene Wolfe, "The Death of Doctor Island", Universe 3 (1973), ed. Terry Carr; reprinted in The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009).

Language

Oft on the dappled turf at ease
I sit, and play with similes,
Loose type of things through all degrees.

William Wordsworth, To the Daisy.

Language

There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture.

William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale (c. 1610-11), Act V, scene 2, line 12.

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