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⇑Language and Interculturality at University of Primorska

Language: Slovene Studies in Slovene

Studies in Slovene

Subject area: languages

University website: www.upr.si

Type: PhD/Doctoral programme
Academic degree: doktor znanosti (dr.)
Duration: 3 years

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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

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).

Language

How else can I say it? I don't speak no other languages.

Warren A. Mathis, "Ugly" (6 August 2001), Dark Days, Bright Nights

Language

Language is fossil poetry.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, The Poet.

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