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Linguistics is the science of language.
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Psycholinguists argue about whether language reflects our perception of reality or helps create them. I am in the latter camp. Take the names we give the animals we eat. The Patagonian toothfish is a prehistoric-looking creature with teeth like needles and bulging yellowish eyes that lives in deep waters off the coast of South America. It did not catch on with sophisticated foodies until an enterprising Los Angeles importer renamed it the considerably more palatable "Chilean sea bass.
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― Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals
― Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat: Why It's So Hard to Think Straight About Animals
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In the world “out there,” there are no verbs, no speech events, and no adjacency pairs. There are particles of matter moving around in certain recurrent and yet not fully predictable patterns. We interpret such experiences as and through symbolic means, including linguistic expressions. That’s what it means to be human.
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― Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader
― Linguistic Anthropology: A Reader
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