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  1. A language is not just words. It's a culture, a tradition, a unification of a community, a whole history that creates what a community is. It's all embodied in a language. Noam Chomsky. Communication, Community, Culture. "We Still Live Here: Âs Nutayuneân". Documentary, January 10, 2011.

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      Noam Chomsky (2013). “How the World Works”, p.78, Soft Skull...

  2. On Language by Noam Chomsky 992 ratings, 3.82 average rating, 51 reviews Open Preview. Showing 1-30 of 35. “Compare mathematics and the political sciences—it’s quite striking. In mathematics, in physics, people are concerned with what you say, not with your certification.

  3. Noam Chomsky (2013). “How the World Works”, p.78, Soft Skull Press. 494 Copy quote. The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views.

  4. Mar 14, 2016 · 12 Quotes by Noam Chomsky “The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd.”

  5. The basis of Noam Chomsky's linguistic theory lies in biolinguistics, the linguistic school that holds that the principles underpinning the structure of language are biologically preset in the human mind and hence genetically inherited.

  6. en.wikiquote.org › wiki › Noam_ChomskyNoam Chomsky - Wikiquote

    Nov 4, 2003 · Avram Noam Chomsky (born 7 December 1928) is an American linguist, analytical philosopher, cognitive scientist, political analyst, human rights activist and anarcho-socialist. See also: The Chomsky Reader (1987)

  7. Do linguistic factors influence general cognitive development? CHOMSKY: I would like to re-phrase the first question and ask what role other aspects of cognition play in the acquisition of language since, as put, it is not a question I can answer.