It is no secret that the fruits of language study are in no sort of relation to the labour spent on teaching and learning them.

Fashion is custom in the guise of departure from custom

Human beings do not live in the objective world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society.

A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him.

Nonverbal communication is an elaborate secret code that is written nowhere, known by none, and understood by all.

More and more, unsolicited gifts from without are likely to be received with unconscious resentment.

Comparison of statements made at different periods frequently enable us to give maximal and minimal dates to the appearance of a cultural element or to assign the time limits to a movement of population.