THE WORLD WITHIN THE WORD
Jun 05, 2021
2 minutes
—Alok Rai
I have always been struck by the contrast between the seductive mystery of language and the kind of sterile stuff that emerges from traditional linguistics departments. Language is endlessly exciting. Philosophers wrestle with its elusive and irreducible ambiguity, poets make love with it, and linguists,
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