Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class. At a time when I had not yet grasped th...e significance of the fact that in my house English was a second language, or that I wore dresses while my brother wore pants, I knew--and I knew it was important to know--that Papa worked hard all day long.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper a...rrangement of the various parts of the speech.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Talking about dreams is like talking about movies, since the cinema uses the language of dreams; years can pass in a second and yo...u can hop from one place to another. It's a language made of image. And in the real cinema, every object and every light means something, as in a dream.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have good reason to believe that memories of early childhood do not persist in consciousness because of the absence or fragment...ary character of language covering this period. Words serve as fixatives for mental images. . . . Even at the end of the second year of life when word tags exist for a number of objects in the child's life, these words are discrete and do not yet bind together the parts of an experience or organize them in a way that can produce a coherent memory.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At each stage of development the child needs different resources from the family. During the first year, a variety of experience a...nd the availability of the parents for attachment are primary. During the second and third years, stimulation of language development is critical. During the years prior to school entrance, information that persuades children they are loved becomes critical, and during the school years it is important for children to believe that they can succeed at the tasks they want to master.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am trembling: I am suddenly charged with their language, these six strings,... Suddenly made to see they can declare Nothing but harmony, and may not move Without a happy stirring of the air That builds within this room a second room....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And when discipline is concerned, the parent who has to make it to the end of an eighteen-hour day--who works at a job and then ta...kes on a second shift with the kids every night--is much more likely to adopt the survivor's motto: "If it works, I'll use it." From this perspective, dads who are even slightly less involved and emphasize firm limits or character- building might as well be talking a foreign language. They just don't get it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. It embodies, indeed, something better than... the metaphysics of the Stone Age, namely, as was said, the inherited experience and acumen of many generations of men.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let us distinguish between acting intentionally and acting deliberately or on purpose, as far as this can be done by attending to ...what language can teach us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »