“It is often said that the job of language is to report or reflect of mirror reality, but the power of language is greater and more dangerous than that; it is to shape reality, not of course in a literal sense – the world is one thing, words another – but in the sense that the order imposed on a piece of the world by a sentence is only one among innumerable possible orders.”—Stanley Fish “How to Write a Sentence”, p 37, Harper Collins, 2011.
