Kenneth Lee Pike Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• Verbal and nonverbal activity is a unified whole, and theory and methodology should be organized or created to treat it as such.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Language, Methodology, Should

  Kenneth Lee Pike (1967). “Language in relation to a unified theory of the structure of human behavior”, Mouton De Gruyter

• Language is not merely a set of unrelated sounds, clauses, rules, and meanings; it is a total coherent system of these integrating with each other, and with behavior, context, universe of discourse, and observer perspective.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Perspective, Sound, Language

  Kenneth Lee Pike (1982). “Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics”

• Language is a tool adequate to provide any degree of precision relevant to a particular situation.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Degrees, Tools, Adequate

• Revelation and the nature of truth must be viewed in reference to the structure of language.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Language, Revelations, Structure

• If language did not affect behavior, it could have no meaning.

  Kenneth Lee Pike

  Language, Behavior, Ifs

  Kenneth Lee Pike (1982). “Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics”

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