Sentences with phrase «from ordinary speech»

In varying degrees, legal language has always differed from ordinary speech.
It may still be asked, however, whether words taken from ordinary speech, familiar to everybody, can appropriately be applied or addressed to God.

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On the theoretical side, it ranges from the speaking or writing of sentences of modest import up to the enunciation of important scientific or philosophical truths; on the practical, it ranges from the involvement of rational speech with the ordinary tasks of daily life up to its involvement with moral decisions of the most momentous kind.
They are not the elements of a new language, distinct from our ordinary language, but simply represent a shorthand for our everyday speech, as pertaining to mathematics.
To me, these were speech acts, typical ordinary language practices, performative utterances, that I knew all about from JL Austin's How to Do Things with Words.
The education secretary Justine Greening will today defend grammar schools in a major speech, claiming that selective schools already benefit young people from «ordinary working class backgrounds».
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