linguistic behavior Quotes

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

Women tend to double-speak - I'm definitely guilty of that.

Men's language is as their lives.

Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.

We need to change what we say and what we allow to be said in front of us.

We women talk too much, but even then we don't tell half what we know

One of the first studies in the field of gender and language, by Don H. Zimmerman and Candace West in 1975, found that in casual conversations between women and men, women were interrupted far more often.

Women, tend to talk more than men, and they do this thing where they say things that can easily be shown. Like, they don't need to do that.

A language is everything you do.

Something I realized when I moved to America: people get these general American accents, but when they get angry or upset or excited, their original accents come out. It's something I noticed with my manager, because he's from New York, and the first time he got angry, he suddenly had this accent.

Thought and speech are of a thinking and speaking subject, and if the life of the latter depends on the performance of a superimposed function, it depends on fulfilling the requirements of this function thus it depends on those who control these requirements.

The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before anyone knew there were rules.

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are. By using bad language, we diminish the divine spark within us that defines our humanity.

I say ‘Uhmm...’ a lot. I mentioned this to Karla and she says it’s a CPU word. It means you’re assembling data in your head - spooling.

The behaviorist advances the view that what the psychologists have hitherto called thought is in short nothing but talking to ourselves.

The way I talk is bizarre.

It's a weird thing with accents. When I go home it gets a lot stronger, when I've had a few beers it gets a lot stronger.