Carolina QuotesLanguage is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception; it gives shape to what would otherwise be inert and dead. The shaping power of language cannot be avoided. We cannot choose to distance ourselves from it. We can only choose to employ it in one way rather than another.
Stanley Fish Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Chapter 4, What Is A Good Sentence?, p. 42
- work
- How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One (2011)
- year
- 2011
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- p. 42
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“Language is not a handmaiden to perception; it is perception…” Stanley Fish. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-1651C4980F. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/1651c4980f
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