Kenneth Lee Pike Quotes about Language

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

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”

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”

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

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

Kenneth Lee Pike

Language, Revelations, Structure

Kenneth Lee Pike Quotes about Language

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