Kassel, Germany

Language and Literary Studies

Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften

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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.
Language
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
Language
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)
Language
He has strangled
His language in his tears.
William Shakespeare, Henry VIII (c. 1613), Act V, scene 1, line 158.
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