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⇑Language Sciences at University of Fribourg

Language: English Studies in English

University website: www.unifr.ch

Type: PhD/Doctoral programme
Academic degree: Philosophiae Doctor in Scientia Linguarum / Doctor of Philosophy in Language Sciences (PhD)
Credits: ECTS credits can be earned ECTS

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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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Language Sciences

For the academic discipline, see Linguistics

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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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Language is the only instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

Samuel Johnson, Preface to his English Dictionary.

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Evolution teaches us the original purpose of language was to ritualize men's threats and curses, his spells to compel the gods; communication came later.

Gene Wolfe, "The Death of Doctor Island", Universe 3 (1973), ed. Terry Carr; reprinted in The Best of Gene Wolfe (2009).

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