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The practice of employing metaphor and image and composition and linguistic choices to move the reader through the content.
— Lidia Yuknavitch
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Why does everyone cling to the masculine imagery and pronouns even though they are a mere linguistic device that has never meant that God is male?
— Carol P. Christ
Intended to serve as an introduction to both the linguistic and also the practical study of spoken English.
— Henry Sweet
There is no linguistic war in Montreal.
— Pierre Moreau
The Devil fights from behind barricades of linguistic complexity, but the war of words will be won by those armed only with simplistic truths
— Dean Cavanagh
Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
In a way, the blank canvas ... represents the infinity of trying to use color to express emotions - to assign a linguistic function to color.
— Guido Molinari
Men like to become Christians without crossing racial, linguistic or class barriers
— Donald McGavran
Codebreakers are linguistic alchemists, a mystical tribe attempting to conjure sensible words out of meaningless symbols.
— Simon Singh
When it comes to correct English, there's no one in charge; the lunatics are running the asylum.
— Steven Pinker
We're trapped in linguistic constructs ... all that is is metaphor.
— Robert Anton Wilson
For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication.
— Karen Russell
The polyglot is a linguistic nomad.
— Rosi Braidotti
... the truest writers are those who see language not as a linguistic process but as a living element ...
— Derek Walcott
Death is a displaced name for a linguistic predicament.
— Paul De Man
this type of analysis combines the three target-situation analyses (use, linguistic, and learning) and the present-situation analysis to
— James Dean Brown
What we call ideology is precisely the confusion of linguistic with natural reality, of reference with phenomenalism
— Paul De Man
Would you trust the linguistic intuitions of someone who has been studying Latin or Greek for three days?
— Larry Wall
Canada has no cultural unity, no linguistic unity, no religious unity, no economic unity, no geographic unity. All it has is unity.
— Kenneth E. Boulding
Linguistic sounds, considered as external, physical phenomena have two aspects, the motor and the acoustic.
— Roman Jakobson
Shakespeare told us precious little of the man whom he entombed in his linguistic sarcophagus.
— John Green
A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.
— Roman Jakobson
Although many texters enjoy breaking linguistic rules, they also know they need to be understood.
— David Crystal
I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament.
— Daniel Everett
A linguistic system is a series of differences of sound combined with a series of differences of ideas.
— Ferdinand De Saussure
Poetry is not only the most concise way of conveying the human experience; it also offers the highest possible standards for any linguistic operation.
— Joseph Brodsky
Curious how these early linguistic abilities are so fragile, how unthinkingly and easily the brain lets them go.
— William Boyd
I can usually find my own way out of whatever dicey literary or linguistic situations I wander into, but I have to work much harder at the science.
— Kathryn Schulz
Try not to live in a linguistic slum.
— Susan Sontag
the brain of a child learning a language can cope with a mind-boggling amount of linguistic complexity.
— Guy Deutscher
Every linguistic sign is located on two axes: the axis of simultaneity and that of succession.
— Roman Jakobson
There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones.
— Peter Capaldi
The most staggering linguistic turnabout for me is the one that equates green economy with 'sustained economic growth.'
— Tim Jackson
Just having an abstract conversation about linguistic parallelism.
— Brandon Sanderson
We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of euphemism
— Robert Hughes
Moral judgments are linguistic survivals from the practices of classical theism which have lost the context provided by these practices.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
Any proposition containing the word "is" creates a linguistic structural confusion which will eventually give birth to serious fallacies.
— Alfred Korzybski
Laurence dwelled on this linguistic injustice
— Charlie Jane Anders
The most appealing side-effect of Sri Lankan cricket from where I stand, shuffling words, has been linguistic.
— Romesh Gunesekera
