Sentences with phrase «linguistic systems»

According to Psychology Today, «Touchscreens offer an intuitive interface which enable toddlers to gain intense contingent sensory stimulation during a peak period of neural development and at an age when the relatively immature motor and linguistic systems have previously limited cognitive stimulation.»

Incorporating typography, text and design, her work explored various linguistic systems.

It is apparent that the statement that there is a plurality of cultural - linguistic systems is intended by most of them as something more than a context - dependent statement.

We are not shut in to our private experience, the human world in general, or to particular cultural - linguistic systems.

That means that we shall have to enter into philosophical and cultural - linguistic systems other than our own and show in their terms that what we say makes sense, or that that system is in itself confused on its own terms, and that we are prepared to abandon our beliefs if they can not make sense in other viable systems and hence are not universal in significance.

This involves no assertions one way or another about the value or validity of other cultural - linguistic systems or about the relation of Christian faith to any nonlinguistic reality.

It assumes that from the perspectives that come to expression in cultural - linguistic systems and are shaped by them, something of reality is seen.

Cultural - linguistic systems are not self - enclosed.

This last instance should help to prepare us for conversations between persons who have been formed in quite different communities and linguistic systems.

Hence there is no reference to a world outside the language to which words in other linguistic systems could also refer.

They live in and through their quite different linguistic system.

Suppose, then, that each culture, each linguistic system, ultimately each person in each moment, highlights some of these events and patterns and thus attains sufficient order to navigate the flux.

If within this linguistic system Christ is the only Savior and Lord, and if, within this system, all who are not part of the community that uses this system are damned, then that is what is to be said and believed.

Thus every element in a language has its meaning by its reference to other parts of the linguistic system.

For those believers who genuninely live within the linguistic system, it may overcome lukewarmness, but it renews the dangers of the earlier exclusivism.

Although the cultural - linguistic system of Christians is very different from that of Buddhists, in dialogue Christians appear to gain the ability to see some things they had not noticed before, and the same seems to be true for Buddhists.

The task of the church is to socialize people into the Christian cultural - linguistic system in such a way that their lives individually and together authentically express the implications of living out of that system.

All the semiological systems, along with the linguistic system, must be decoded, and, as Ricoeur says, «that requires a special affinity between the reader and the kind of things the text is about» (19) What is appropriated is not a system of ideas but deep values of truth that are imposed «with such power that no further proof is needed to perceive their validity and reality».

The proponents of the linguistic turn are correct in pointing to the interconnectedness of every word with other words in the linguistic system of which it is a part.

Thus it would seem that a nonsuperficial Christianity must be based on something more than an individual decision for Christ, must be based on induction into the Christian cultural - linguistic system.

A too easy, although quite compelling, way of making the point is that «salvation» is a notion whose meaning is understandable only within the Christian cultural - linguistic system, so of course no one else has it; whatever Buddhists or Confucians, say, are after, it is not salvation.

Revelation is not something that can be understood simply by learning to parse the cultural - linguistic system of Western Christendom.

Post-liberal Christians recognize that Christianity is one cultural - linguistic system alongside others.

In many dual - language bilingual programs, bilingualism is seen as a separate dual - language competence, a monoglossic view of bilingualism that relies on the conventions of named languages of nation - states, rather than on the unitary linguistic system of speakers.

In her seminal work The Bowery in two inadequate descriptive systems (1974/75), a grid of 24 texts and images conjoins a photographic and a linguistic system to represent an iconic Skid Row district inhabited by alcoholics and transients (and, invisibly, a few loft - dwelling artists).

Not exact matches

The university also ranks among the top 50 universities in the world for linguistics, computer science and information systems, civil and structural engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, mechanical engineering, agriculture and forestry, psychology, chemistry, environmental studies, materials science, physics and astronomy, and other fields.

In fact, over a decade ago, I was told by my peers of the exact same scam, described by neuro - linguistic programming expert Derren Brown of a fool - proof system that could predict the winner of every horse race around the world, used by Wall Street financial consultants on unsuspecting prospects to successfully gather millions of dollars of AUM.

The implication is that each community lives by and in a «cultural - linguistic» system.

Ricoeur's «world in front of the text», which he identifies with the depth semantics of the text, is a world of logocentrism, a world in which the linguistic code of a text, functioning as a semiotic system, has the power to communicate apart from and even in spite of the author's intention.

And yet, paradoxically, that same commentator speaks, somewhat dismissively, of metaphysical systems like Spinoza's as depending on the generalizing of metaphors («logical doctrines and linguistic analogies» — 6: 218f).

Since all propositions presuppose a system and context, it is impossible to reduce linguistic assertions to a simple definite signification of reality.

Metaphysics has been a field of study on its deathbed since Kant, its few intellectual life - support systems having finally been unplugged by the very caretakers of the profession that gave it birth — philosophers of the positivist and linguistic schools.

Further, it means that all systems and persons who seek to be faithful to the original deposit are evangelical in the linguistic and theological sense.

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.

As such, the linguistic rights of consumers and users and its role as the primary language in the education system were limited.

Strangely enough, although we had some grammar at school and I studied linguistics, many facets of English grammar such as its tense system were relatively unfamiliar to me initially.

«Although such systems are capable of understanding many words, they are often tripped up by creative uses of words that go beyond their existing, pre-programmed vocabularies,» said study lead author Yang Xu, a postdoctoral researcher in linguistics and cognitive science at UC Berkeley.

The data comparing dozens of indigenous languages support phases of migration for the Dene languages and multilingual language contact systems along the Alaska coast, which potentially involved languages related to current linguistic isolates.

His team's data support the anthropological and linguistic theory that the Indian caste system was established thousands of years ago by Western invaders, perhaps from Anatolia and Caucasia.

Boyd, who is based at Monash University in Clayton, Victoria, studies systems biology — a discipline that combines life sciences with maths, computer science, chemistry and even linguistics.

The study's co-authors — Claire Bowern, associate professor of linguistics at Yale, and former Yale postdoc Hannah J. Haynie — utilized an evolutionary framework to study the color systems in the Pama - Nyungan language.

South Asian genetic landscape, bearing in mind its geographic, linguistic, socio - cultural and skin color diversity, offers an excellent model system to decipher the genetic underpinnings of human skin color variation and for a better understanding of it's evolutionary history.

«People have largely interpreted these systems as working independently or as competing with each other in the learning process,» said Michael Frank, a professor in Brown's Department of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences and co-author of the paper.

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And New Zealand's choice system is so narrowly constrained to government - run operations that the innovation would be totally ignored had folks there not had the same political and linguistic ancestry as those populating the United States.

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