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Bielefeld University

Language and Literary Studies

Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften

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⇑Language and Literary Studies at Bielefeld University

Language: German Studies in German

Studies in German

University website: www.uni-bielefeld.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

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

Ludwig Wittgenstein Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (5.6)

Language

Oft on the dappled turf at ease
I sit, and play with similes,
Loose type of things through all degrees.

William Wordsworth, To the Daisy.

Language

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Letters and Social Aims (1876), Quotation and Originality.

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