Functionalized, schematized language loses its capacity to express rich significance

Evidence

By serving existing injustice, language fell victim to two contradictions. First, the process of becoming functionalized and schematized had led language into contradiction with its capacity to express a wealth of significance. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 532

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Karl Kraus’s Sprachkritik and Mauthnerian language skepticism, both named here as the lineage of this argument.