Citas sobre el lenguaje-T.S. Eliot

 “For last year's words belong to last year's language. And next year's words await another voice.”

T.S. Eliot

Citas sobre el lenguaje-Joan Didion

The ability to think for one's self depends on one's mastery of the language
Slouching towards Bethlehem

Grammar is a piano I play by ear, since I seem to have been out of school the year the rules were mentioned. All I know about grammar is its infinite power. To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters the meaning of the object photographed. Many people know about camera angles now, but not so many know about sentences. The arrangement of the words matters, and the arrangement you want can be found in the picture in your mind. The picture dictates the arrangement. The picture dictates whether this will be a sentence with or without clauses, a sentence that ends hard or a dying-fall sentence, long or short, active or passive. The picture tells you how to arrange the words and the arrangement of the words tells you, or tells me, what’s going on in the picture. Nota bene.

It tells you.
You don’t tell it.
Essays and Conversations

Citas sobre el lenguaje: bell hooks

bell hooks (1952-2021), la gran autora de nombre en minúsculas, nos deja emocionantes reflexiones sobre el lenguaje como arma de resistencia y sobre el poder de las palabras. 

"Language is also a place of struggle"

Su vida: https://elpais.com/cultura/2021-12-16/fallece-bell-hooks-escritora-afroamericana-e-icono-del-feminismo.html 

Su obra: https://bookshop.org/books?keywords=bell+hooks

Citas sobre el lenguaje-Lord Byron

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. . .

Lord Byron

Image by MAKY.OREL 

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Citas sobre el lenguaje-Blanca Riestra

"De vez en cuando Pascal se volvía y me hablaba. Me hablaba muy lentamente, vocalizando mucho, desgranaba comentarios inconexos. Sus palabras eran pocas pero se derramaban hasta sumergirlo todo. 'Adiós' quería decir:
'quédate', 'pásame una calada', 'tengo miedo'. Porque toda palabra es arbitraria y una silla debiera quizás llamarse 'mesa'; una mujer, 'ombligo' o 'pero'; el atardecer, 'y', o quizás 'no, nunca'..."

Blanca Riestra, La canción de las cerezas

Citas sobre el lenguaje-Apollinaire

   

«Las palabras forman y deshacen el universo. El lenguaje define nuestra realidad»

Apollinaire

El significado de la conjunción copulativa: semántica vs. pragmática

Significados de la conjunción copulativa Y en la RAE.

Significado causal de la conjunción derivado del orden de las cláusulas y el contexto