My writing is about connecting ways of talking to human relationships. My purpose is to show that linguistics has something to offer in understanding and improving relationships.
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I'm a linguist. I study how people talk to each other and how the ways we talk affect our relationships.
Any friendship or relationship is about a language.
My interest in the linguistic differences between women and men grew from research I conducted early in my career on conversations between speakers of different ethnic and regional backgrounds.
A relationship is based on communication.
Communication will bring understanding and understanding will cause harmonious mutual relationships which can establish peace and stability.
Linguistics is very much a science. It's a human science, one of the human sciences. And it's one of the more interesting human sciences.
Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.
Language is the means by which we negotiate our relationship with time.
All our relationships are person-to-person. They involve people seeing, hearing, touching, and speaking to each other; they involve sharing goods; and they involve moral values like generosity and compassion.
People have entire relationships via text message now, but I am not partial to texting. I need context, nuance and the warmth and tone that can only come from a human voice.
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