Pragmatics Of Language Quotes & Sayings

Everything in me feels fluttering and free, like I could take off from the ground at any second. Music, I think, he makes me feel like music. — Lauren Oliver

By their complying with your request to leave they [the Saints in Clay County] are surrendering some of the dearest rights guaranteed in the Constitution of our country; and that human nature can be driven to a certain extent when it will yield no further. — Joseph Smith Jr.

Whatever we choose to imagine can be as private as we want it to be. Nobody knows what you're thinking or feeling unless you share it. — Fred Rogers

Once I began taking calls for cable, I quickly realized that when Americans cannot watch television, all of their repressed marital rage floods the telephone lines. — Anonymous

The fantastic 4 I's ... I have a vision, I have a will, I own my life and I control my future — Mohammed Sekouty

I joined a small but growing post-Trotskyite Luxembourgist sect. — Christopher Hitchens

To be sure, governments will remain critical to any comprehensive effort to save our planet. — Lawrence Bender

I think if you try to look for something to show off as an actor, vanity can get the better of you. — Steve Coogan

What I like about writing a stand alone novel is you're starting with a fresh world and fresh characters. Part of what I love about writing is that journey of discovery where it's all new to me as well. — Michael Koryta

Punctuation is the pragmatics of written language. — M.B. Parkes

The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only one of these is present, we say that the thing is alive, if, for instance, there is intellect or perception or spatial movement and rest or indeed movement connected with nourishment and growth and decay. It is for this reason that all the plants are also held to be alive ... — Aristotle.

It seemed to a number of philosophers of language, myself included, that we should attempt to achieve a unification of Chomsky's syntax, with the results of the researches that were going on in semantics and pragmatics. I believe that this effort has proven to be a failure. Though Chomsky did indeed revolutionize the subject of linguistics, it is not at all clear, at the end the century, what the solid results of this revolution are. As far as I can tell there is not a single rule of syntax that all, or even most, competent linguists are prepared to agree is a rule. — John Rogers Searle

To suppose that whatever God requireth of us that we have power of ourselves to do, is to make the cross and grace of Jesus Christ of none effect. — John Owen

Watching them together slipped a knife between my ribs and hit my heart exactly. — Colum McCann