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Reading, United Kingdom

University of Reading

Language Sciences

Master's

Language: English Studies in English

Studies in English

Subject area: languages

Qualification: MSc

Kind of studies: full-time studies, part-time studies

Master of Science (MSc)

University website: www.reading.ac.uk

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.

Language Sciences

For the academic discipline, see Linguistics

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).

Language

Oft on the dappled turf at ease
I sit, and play with similes,
Loose type of things through all degrees.

William Wordsworth, To the Daisy.

Language

Language is the only instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

Samuel Johnson, Preface to his English Dictionary.

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