Whitehead's account of the functions of what he terms «symbols in Symbolism and Process and Reality offers a suggestive attempt at such an extension.4 In the first of these works two basic forms of symbols are distinguished:
linguistic expressions in the form of perceived words and sentences and our sense presentations correlated to natural objects.
Not exact matches
It assumes that from the perspectives that come to
expression in cultural -
linguistic systems and are shaped by them, something of reality is seen.
The English versions have not retained the rhythm, the variation of meter, the stylistic flavor, grammatical constructions, the rhetorical
expressions, the use of alliterations and other kinds of
linguistic renderings
in the Greek New Testament.59 In the Malayalam Bible, the rhetorical expression in He
in the Greek New Testament.59
In the Malayalam Bible, the rhetorical expression in He
In the Malayalam Bible, the rhetorical
expression in He
in Heb.
Just as
linguistic expressions lead us to anticipate certain experiences, so for Berkeley certain experiences or immediate ideas are «natural signs» of others, as the sound of the coach is a sign of the sight of the approaching coach.8 The second realist version can be found
in the writings of Thomas Reid, for whom sensations are signs of external objects.
4 I follow Whitehead
in using his term «symbol»
in a generic sense applying to both
linguistic expressions and sense presentations as natural signs.
This type of argument is again broadly evidentiary
in nature, although it reflects not the «turn to the subject» characteristic of the appeal to individual experience, but rather a «pragmatic» or «
linguistic» turn, as illustrated by Whitehead's observation that the evidence of human experience as shared by civilized intercommunication «is also diffused throughout the meanings of words and
linguistic expressions» (cited
in TPT 74).12 Such an appeal is an essentially historical form of argumentation.
The ancient tongues were but a small though important province
in the realm which he explored tirelessly, testing his general theory of
linguistic expression by an investigation not only of Indo - European and Semitic idioms but also of Basque and Hungarian, of American Indian languages, of Chinese and South Sea dialects.1 Visitors found the aged sage «pure and perfect like an ancient work of art.»
In developing his argument against this fallacy, Whitehead's philosophy moves away from modernity's logocentric assumptions of an underlying ontological reality to which
linguistic expressions conform.
The problem we now face, says Berkouwer, is that the presupposition of the hermeneutic of continuity — that the same judgment of truth can be expressed
in a variety of conceptual or
linguistic formulations — no longer seems self - evident, given that truth's
expressions are historically conditioned, and that these
expressions are never absolute, wholly adequate, and irreplaceable.
Francis intuitively understands that propositions — contents of thought that are true or false — do not vary as the language
in which they are expressed varies; truths of faith are more than their
linguistic expression.
For when you face a system that attributes everything to the cultural (the God the Bible speaks of is only a curtural
expression) and to
linguistic structures (the message has no true content — it only has syntactic structure), your intellectual refutation of it can not be couched
in terms more exact than those adduced
in support of the system.
Digital technology is fuelling a
linguistic revolution
in which even simple
expressions like LOL mask sophisticated layers of meaning, argues Tom Chatfield
The Swedish Academy was established
in 1786 to promote the Swedish language by setting standards and developing poetry and other forms of
linguistic expression.
In Table I Ling exp is
linguistic expression, Quant» is quantification, Not»n is notation, % is percentage, MT is mean temperature, °C is degrees Celsius, MP is mean precipitation, kg m2 is kilogram per square metre, MGFF is mean ground frost frequency, Alt is altitude, m is metre.
Aside from creativity, we emphasize the simple practical skills of our writers: speed of typing and self -
expression, the competence
in traditional writing software, communication abilities, knowledge
in basic
linguistics, and so on.
These include the history and discourse surrounding racism
in the United States, the
linguistic legacy of colonialism
in Africa, recent warfare, the role of rhetoric
in international affairs since the beginning of the 20th century and the transformative power of creative
expressions of protest.
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In linguistics, a speech act is defined as an
expression that serves a performative function — it both describes and shapes reality.