An amalgamation of quotes and ideas on the nature of language
Words are saturated with time. We are saturated with words for we are temporal beings. Language is not merely a system of semiotics, it doesn't merely represent the world. Rather it constructs it, performs it, creates it and destroys it. It morphs aspects of our reality and forces them to filter through its phonetic and conceptual prisms. If language performs, then the dictionary of all possible words is the cosmos. Welcome to the world of language, the reality in which we live...
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Theory of Language
"Any philosophical system is, in the last analysis, a theory of language. Every inquiry about being calls into question the power of words" -Albert Camus
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