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I'm very interested in language because it reflects our obsessions and ways of conceptualising the world.

Language is a nice way to remember things.

I grew up speaking both languages, and for me that's really important.

I feel that as the world becomes more and more multicultural, it's a good tool to be able to speak another language.

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

What I'm interested in is how people are reading and writing English.

Language is the means by which we negotiate our relationship with time.

Language is one component of the human cognitive capacity which happens to be fairly amenable to enquiry. So we know a good deal about that.

Language is the most extraordinary invention in the history of humanity, the one which came before everything and which makes it possible to share everything.

Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.