Sentences with phrase «of linguistic expression»

The Swedish Academy was established in 1786 to promote the Swedish language by setting standards and developing poetry and other forms of linguistic expression.

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.»

A bit later, I shall try to explain why my point is borne out by an account of the structure of metaphors, which are, after all, the proper modes of linguistic expression and access to reality for Bergson.

Therefore, we need to explore other possibilities of linguistic expression.

Derrida rejects the presumption that philosophy presents being, presence, and reality more accurately than literature and other forms of linguistic expressions.

Therefore, Derrida's arguments breaks down the sharp distinctions that separate and privilege philosophy over other forms of linguistic expressions.

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 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.

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.

This version of symbolic functioning allows a comparison between the interpretation of a sense presentation such as the sight of lightning and linguistic expression such as the word «tree».

One may take the linguistic turn and deny that religious statements are about reality, interpreting them as expressions of value and ways of ordering life meaningfully.

Since linguistic signs are matters of historical and cultural convention, when language presents itself as natural rather than drawing attention to its own arbitrariness, it may get granted unquestioned status as the expression of what is real and abiding.

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.

Distinguishing a proposition from its judgment or its linguistic expressions enables Whitehead to show the real significance of a proposition.

If propositions were identical with judgments and their linguistic expressions and had truth value as a conceptual constituent, Whitehead's notion of the «locus» of a proposition would not be possible.

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.

This leads Derrida to challenge both the philosophical presumption that linguistic signifiers can convey an accurate picture of an extra-textual reality and the tendency of metaphysicians to privilege these philosophical assertions as higher expressions of truth.

Poetry's unique ability to penetrate and portray the prevalence of the world4 without making assertive claims of truth or falsity gives poetry a power of expression unmatched certainly by any other linguistic mode of utterance.

The use of language can also be a craft, and part of the skill of being a linguistic craftsperson — a wordsmith, if you like — is the ability to be sensitive to the nuances and ambiguities of words and expressions and thus the effects that they will have on the reader or listener.

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

Tom Chatfield's article on the linguistic revolution fuelled by digital technology (6 April, p 30) explores the possible origins of the expression LOL, which is usually interpreted as meaning laughing out loud.

From Wikipedia: «Linguistic semantics is the study of meaning that is used for understanding human expression through language.»

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.

Like the work of Glenn Ligon and Christopher Wool, artistic predecessors who have worked with black - and - white textual accretion and erasure, Rasheed's installations probe the limitations and fissures of linguistic self - expression.

Using photography, video, installation and signage, Xu Zhen (Shanghai) and Ron Terada (Vancouver) draw our attention to the mostly unnoticed and dismissed trivial details of everyday life, like the linguistic goofiness or visual puns of street signs, the ridiculousness of clichéd expressions, and pranks.

A quirky feature of these expressions is that they sometimes take a jab at the other linguistic group.

As a Neuro Linguistic Programming («NLP») Practitioner, and a Life Coach, I have spend years learning skills like listening for tone of voice, watching body language, and reading facial expressions.