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Any friendship or relationship is about a language.

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 like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.

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

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

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

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs.

My use of language is part and parcel of my message.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.