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...
Everywhere-even deep in Lacan's "lettered unconscious", more dense than a black hole in space-everywhere we encounter that immanence called Language, with all it's literary ambiguities, epistemic conundrums, and political distractions.
"By Universe I mean the aggregate of all humanity's consciously apprehended and communicated experiences. Wherefore I realized that all the words in all dictionaries are the consequent tools of all men's conscious and conscientious attempts to communicate all their experiences- which is of course to communicate Universe."
Language might become a medium of ontological disclosure in which things take on being through words and in postmodern thinking, truth might transcend the merely pragmatic dimension; it might become the loyal articulation, in language, of what is.....
New Historicists in general share this modus operandi, insisting that every expressive act engages and participates in a system of material and ideological practices, that no neutral position is possible, that language itself is unavoidably inflected with particular biases and perspectives, that to express is not merely to represent, but to act, to change, and to distort.