Ordinary language carries with it conditions of meaning which it is easy to recognize by classifying the contexts in which the expression is employed in a meaningful manner.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.
In a sense, every form of expression is imposed upon one by social factors, one's own language above all.
Language is a mixture of statement and evocation.
In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.
It is one of the aims of linguistics to define itself, to recognise what belongs within its domain. In those cases where it relies upon psychology, it will do so indirectly, remaining independent.
The idea is that the object has a language unto itself.
The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features.
Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification.
According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.
Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.