Languages in the World Quotes

“No identity is fully chosen by the individual, just as no identity is fully determined by forces external to the individual. This endless interplay between constraint and choice means that identities are necessarily dynamic, emergent, and contextual rather than static, predetermined, and immutable.”
― Julie Tetel Andresen, Languages In The World: How History, Culture, and Politics Shape Language

“the United States itself is a partial by-product of eighteenth-century French political thought. The”
― Julie Tetel Andresen, Languages In The World: How History, Culture, and Politics Shape Language

“since humans are not famous for being strictly logical. These”
― Julie Tetel Andresen, Languages In The World: How History, Culture, and Politics Shape Language