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Konstanz, Germany

University of Konstanz

Language and Literary Studies

Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften

Language: 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.

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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).

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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.

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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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