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Language Dynamics: Acquisition, Variation and Change

Sprachdynamik: Erwerb, Variation, Wandel

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⇑Language Dynamics: Acquisition, Variation and Change at University of Oldenburg

Language: German Studies in German

Studies in German

Qualification: Master

Kind of studies: full-time studies

University website: www.uni-oldenburg.de

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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.

Acquisition

We go to gain a little patch of ground
That hath in it no profit but the name.

William Shakespeare, in Hamlet, Act 4, sc. 4, l. 18 (1604)

Acquisition

With the catching end the pleasures of the chase.

Abraham Lincoln, speech (27 January 1838)

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).

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