Sentences with phrase «nature of human language»

An author of more than 300 scientific articles and 22 books, his research explores the nature of human language and cognition and their application to the understanding and alleviation of human suffering.

«The ability to communicate through language is unique to human beings, and the existence of fully functional, complex languages in a different physical modality makes sign languages a natural laboratory for investigating the nature of human language and cognition in our species,» concluded Prof. Sandler.

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Once God is regarded as an actual entity, the use of personalistic language follows naturally, for our basic clue to the nature of an actual entity is given in our own immediate human experience.

The phenomenon of language nicely illustrates the synthesis of physical, mental, and spiritual aspects in human nature.

While the Resurrection was a fact, attested to by those who experienced it in so far as it could be described in human language, it is not possible to say precisely what the nature of these experiences were.

One possibility is that we are simply using this current language to speak of the importance of the church's developing its doctrine of nature more fully and in ways appropriate to our new understanding of the relation between human beings and the natural world.

If I were to guess — and that is all any outsider can do at this point — I would say that the language of intrinsic value still in the Charter, granting nature some immunity from human need, language which, as noted, the Earth Charter Commission regards as essential and nonnegotiable, will prove the final stumbling block to official acceptance.

(3) Human existence is social in nature; in Christian language, «We are members one of another.»

While classification freed directors to use explicit language in marvelous films like Platoon and Something Wild and has allowed films like Out of Africa and Children of a Lesser God to explore the complex nature of human sexuality, it has also given us a series of slasher films — Friday the 13th, with its many parts; The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, parts one and two — and films like Brian DePalma's artistically significant but deplorably explicit Body Double.

We have observed that all human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself.

He devoted profound and penetrating thought to the nature of speech, to the structure of language, to its psychological and sociological problems, to its typology and its function in the development of human civilization.

The Greek term psyche (soul), which Christians naturally found themselves using in order to describe the spiritual aspect of a man, already implied the dualistic approach to human nature and introduced a concept for which there had been no verbal equivalent in the language of ancient Israel.26

For it begins with God, not with human reasoning, and how we conceive of God is dependent on the nature of the reality that is presented to us — in the language of the Bible, that which is seen.

Traditions of every kind, hoarded and manifested in gesture and language, in schools, libraries, museums, bodies of law and religion, philosophy and science — everything that accumulates, arranges itself, recurs and adds to itself, becoming the collective memory of the human race — all this we may see as no more than an outer garment, an epiphenomenon precariously superimposed upon all the other edifices of Nature (the only truly organic ones, as it may appear): but it is precisely this optical illusion which we have to overcome if our realism is to reach to the heart of the matter.

But language is not a property of the human soul such that the soul possesses it by virtue of its nature.

Although their language would sound quaint today, a dualistic view of human nature torn by the lure of the flesh against the spirit has simply gone underground.

There is the dogmatic principle which argues that supernatural truths committed to human language are necessary and definitive of their very nature.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that no one had ever devoted more profound and more penetrating thought to the nature of speech, to the structure of language, to its psychological and sociological problems, to its typology and its function in the development of human civilization than the sage of Tegel.

Humboldt states in his monograph on the dual that, though the study of language should be pursued for its own sake, it «resembles other branches of learning in not having its ultimate purpose in itself but that it conforms to the general purpose of interest in the human mind to help humanity to realize its true nature and its relation to everything visible and invisible around and above itself.»

That group has, of course, been male, and the male's view of the female as a being whose sexual nature is more marked than her human nature is everywhere in the language.

Such language makes sense only if we assume that «the original principles in human nature» are seen to be good, that traces of a «common humanity» remain, that humans have genuine free will, and that intentional deviation by individuals from what is natural is culpable.

If we take seriously the creativity in human nature and the language that points to and shows the rich meanings to he found in human life, we can talk about the existence of God.

Now comes along Steven Pinker, a psychologist of language at M.I.T., with a new book, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (Viking).

In such a town a sensitive nature feels more acutely than elsewhere the misery caused by language division and sees at every step that the diversity of languages is the first, or at least the most influential, basis for the separation of the human family into groups of enemies.

For Vyvyan Evans, a cognitive linguist, studying emoji entails exploring everything from the nature of communication to the evolutionary origins of language to how meaning arises in the human mind.

In a novel study, «Personality Development through Natural Language,» published in the international journal, Nature: Human Behaviour, Kevin Lanning, Ph.D., lead author of the study and a professor of psychology in Florida Atlantic University's Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, together with FAU Wilkes Honors College alumna Rachel (Evans) Pauletti, and collaborators Laura A. King, Ph.D., University of Missouri, and Dan P. McAdams, Ph.D., Northwestern University, examined how personality maturation or development was reflected in natural language.

The study, published in the journal Nature Communications, presents compelling evidence that stone tool - making helped to drive the evolution of language and teaching among prehistoric human ancestors in the African savanna.

I realized that the questions researchers have about dolphin vocalizations were the same questions that philosophers have about the nature of human meaning and language use.

The conversational aspects of language acquisition, which are primarily of a social nature, are important in everyday human interactions.

Kockroach finds his basic arthropodal nature suffering a number of corruptions as he travels through the human world: his taste for meat, his use of language, the buzzing nuisance of thought, his desire to continue a relationship even after the sex.

For close to 40 years now, as a dog trainer I have devoted myself to coaching clients about the nature of dogs i.e, their body language and energy - as it relates to effective training for both dogs and humans alike.

As the artists included in Coloring reveal, conditions of color can offer a range of physical and conceptual links --- to the human body, nature, popular culture, and language.

They give a viewer pause — to ponder the boundaries of human fantasy, the degree to which nature is pristine, or perhaps how both our language for and concepts of nature are transformed by an intricate and inevitable interweaving with human technology.

Whiteread's casts reference the reductive, visual language of Minimalism such as Richard Serra, Carl Andre and Donald Judd, but in opposition to their geometric and repetitious nature, Whiteread's works retain a distinctly human quality.

With this exhibition Jonas evokes the fragility of nature, using her own poetic language to address the irreversible impact of human interference on the environmental equilibrium of our planet.

The title of the piece references Sun Tzu's famous Taoist text, The Art of War, the chosen words a reflection on language, time, and human nature.

The contradictions inherent to human nature are at the core of the artist's work, which she conveys in a sensual, lyrical and allegorical language.

The sound works explores how we use personification and animal metaphors to define human behavior in our daily conversations, sparking dialogue about the arbitrary nature of classification in language.

To highlight such deficiencies in the IPCC's AR4, in 2008 SEPP partnered with The Heartland Institute to produce Nature, Not Human Activity, Rules the Climate, a summary of research for policymakers that has been widely distributed and translated into six languages.

Because of the nature of onomatopoeia, many mimetic words in different languages can be similar — but when it comes to giving human voice to animal sounds, charming interpretations abound.

Because of the nature of onomatopoeia, many mimetic words in different languages can be similar — but when it comes to giving human voice to animal sounds, quirky interpretations abound.

The complex nature of human attachment and social interaction with caregivers might be one domain in which direct parallels with the animal literature are limited, potentially related to the fact that the attachment relationship between children and caregivers is a necessary scaffold for development of numerous uniquely human capacities, including emotion regulation and language (49, 50).

Because if we meet a ton of strangers, provide good service, learn how to work smart, communicate clearly, don't ever lie and grow our businesses over time (with the learned skills of time management, dealing with different human natures, knowing how and when to delegate and plan, how to finesse our language during client and Realtor communications, and insisting we take time off to balance our lives outside this business) we will, most likely, be ethical professional and respected Realtors.