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University of York

Language and Communication

Language: English Studies in English

Subject area: languages

University website: www.york.ac.uk

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Communication

Communication (from Latin commūnicāre, meaning "to share") is the act of conveying intended meanings from one entity or group to another through the use of mutually understood signs and semiotic rules.

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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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