Edward T. Hall Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.

  Edward T. Hall

  Mean, Other Cultures, People

• Man is used to the fact that there are languages which he does not at first understand and which must be learned, but because art is primarily visual he expects that he should get the message immediately and is apt to be affronted if he doesn't.

  Edward T. Hall

  Art, Men, Doe

• ... while infants will sync with the human voice regardless of language, they later become habituated to the rhythms of their own language and culture ... ... humans are tied to each other by hierarchies of rhythms that are culture-specific and expressed through language and body movement.

  Edward T. Hall

  Voice, Culture, Movement

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