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⇑Language and Literary Studies at University of Kassel

Language: German Studies in German

University website: www.uni-kassel.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.

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Many languages fly around the world
producing sparks when they collide
sometimes of hate
sometimes of love

Bei Dao, "Language", in The August Sleepwalker, trans. Bonnie S. McDougall (New York: New Directions, 1990), p. 121

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The only thing in life is language. Not love. Not anything else.

Richard Burton as quoted by Melvyn Bragg in Richard Burton: A Life (1988)

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He has strangled
His language in his tears.

William Shakespeare, Henry VIII (c. 1613), Act V, scene 1, line 158.

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