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  • I used to buy the Welsh Mirror, does that make me some kind of anti-language bigot?

    Huw Lewis on the defensive 2008

  • In fact, I think that painting is anti-language in many ways, or at least pre-linguistic.

    Abstract Art EAGEAGEAG 2009

  • This perception has been fed by elements of Labour who are indeed fundamentally anti-language such as Labour Councillors in Swansea who recently campaigned aginst a new Welsh school.

    Its Bonkers,Just Bonkers Valleys Mam 2008

  • The Zhuangzi strain, informed by contact with Chinese philosophy of language, recognized that a blanket anti-language position was self-censuring.

    Taoism Hansen, Chad 2007

  • Second, Mohists argued that any attempt to formulate the anti-language position was self condemning.

    Taoism Hansen, Chad 2007

  • Yangzhu's egoism violates Shen Dao's anti-language naturalism as much as does Confucius's traditionalism or Mozi's utilitarianism.

    Taoism Hansen, Chad 2007

  • This undermines both the nihilistic and the anti-language options to understanding Laozi.

    Taoism Hansen, Chad 2007

  • And then Edward, who by this point was in danger of complete mental disintegration, descended further, into a form of anti-language that Sugar called "semaphore".

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • Then she writes: "Before all this,/the scent, which is anti-language/(only, as it drifts into your body/the words slip in, as well)."

    Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk 2010

  • Or as anti-language ” correct dao cannot be put in words or conveyed as guidance to another.

    Taoism Hansen, Chad 2007

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