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specialists in linguistics maintain that although grammars differ from one another, their basic forms – which Noam Chomsky calls their deep structures – are universal (i.e. at the deepest neuropsychic level, there exists a universal [or ‘archetypal’] grammar on which all individual grammars are based); an entirely new discipline, sociobiology, has
... See moreAnthony Stevens • Jung
Words have fixed meanings. That is, our language expresses the concepts and categories that we think in terms of.
George Lakoff • Metaphors We Live By
People can be objective and can speak objectively, but they can do so only if they use language that is clearly and precisely defined, that is straightforward and direct, and that can fit reality.
George Lakoff • Metaphors We Live By
In language, it helps to think of word as an approximate notion.
John McWhorter • Words on the Move: Why English Won't - and Can't - Sit Still (Like, Literally)
Activities in general are viewed metaphorically as SUBSTANCES and therefore as CONTAINERS:
George Lakoff • Metaphors We Live By
it’s about trying to counteract the deep, unconscious gender stereotypes about men as leaders and women as followers.
Kristen R. Ghodsee • Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism: And Other Arguments for Economic Independence
grammar as over the concepts of language. Are the rules of grammar—word order, syntactic structures, word structure, sound structure—encoded in our genes, or do they reflect cultural conventions?
Guy Deutscher • Through the Language Glass
in the postmodern view, “The individual status and position of those we group together and call ‘women’ and of those we call ‘men’ are argued to vary so greatly over time, space and culture that there is little justification for the use of these collective nouns.”
Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
