Munich (München), Germany

Language and Literary Studies

Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften

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Language and Literary Studies at Ludwig Maximilians University Munich

Language: German Studies in German
University website: www.lmu.de
degree: Dr. phil.

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Language
Language is a system that consists of the development, acquisition, maintenance and use of complex systems of communication, particularly the human ability to do so; and a language is any specific example of such a system.
Language
Language is fossil poetry.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, The Poet.
Language
No jobs, no people. No people, no Gaeltacht. No Gaeltacht, no language.
Attributed to Tom O'Donnell [4]
Language
The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
Ludwig Wittgenstein Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (5.6)
Although the Earth is a rocky planet, many aqueous dynamic processes take place beneath its surface making it unique among terrestrial planets. New insight into the role of fluids on properties of materials is directly relevant to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
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