Sentences with phrase «own use of language»

Each communication has to be carefully assessed for meaning and intent within the context of colloquial uses of the language and varying forms of slang.

Still, Yale's use of language within these confidentiality agreements has a similar effect as nondisclosure agreements, or NDAs, which are often used in workplace - harassment settlements.

Perhaps when liberals were in power and had greater ability to influence the press, they might have considered reforming themselves and their use of language.

One wonders whether the authors» use of language derived from a medical model is the wrong approach to the sort of narcissism they describe.

Proper use of the language and its elements, including proofreading before posting, is a sign of intelligence.

This equivocal use of the language of faith never really served well to clarify the faculty's position, and it almost inevitably seemed to some to evade the issue of authority within the church.

Your comments are very uninformed and your poor use of language makes it even more obvious.

Perhaps the most common use of the language of parental rights is to protect the possessive claims of those whose history of abuse or neglect as parents has largely undermined their claim to the title.

The question is not which is greater in its use of language and its power of insight, but why Milton has been the more important for our culture and what we can learn about the limits of both canonical writings and their challengers through this interesting juxtaposition.

Most school learning occurs through the use of language.

But the fact that the patient retains his use of language at all illustrates that a certain organizational level persists within the «nonsocial» nexus.

It seems fairly arrogant to so diverge from three centuries of native language interpretation in favor of that which was learned in a classroom separated from the real use of language and culture by millennia.

In my everyday use of language, neither I nor my hearer posit the meaning of what I say in a very explicit way.

This is, of course, in large part a question of coming to agreement about the use of language.

Does logic reflect the nature of reality, or is it a merely formal structure governing the use of language»?

As well, it drives me crazy when sincere people veer away from sincere «church talk» and out of habit or influence, start using the buzz words and «churchy» talk... I want to shake them and remind them they are better than that... to go back to their most sincere and honest use of language.

But that use of language implies that being a girl is not cool for a real man, and that any man that is a girly - man is of less value and less real.

The result of the use of language that I have selected is that in the strict sense, persons are not agents.

Dictionaries are written as descriptive uses of language (they find out what the majority of people use words to mean, and write it down), rather than prescriptive uses of language (ie some governing board or king or ruler deciding what a word means and telling us how we have to use it).

In his use of language, they, too, «exist,» whereas in the use of Tillich (and others), they obviously do not.

Augustine's use of the language of bodily experience is what makes the Confessions communicable to readers of every age.

Ignorance and the proper use of capitalization and punctuation are also inversely proportional — meaning the more intelligent a person, the better is the use of grammatical conventions in his writing, and the less intelligent, the more cavalier he is with his use of language.

Everything created by and through the use of language must likewise be artificial, unnatural and unreal.

Clever use of language I thought.

But between these primitive forms of sign interpretation and the interpretation and use of language there are many intermediate levels.

My point is that David's use of language is a bit unmeasured in this article.

While these are properly regarded as special subjects of study and are taught as separate disciplines, skill in reasoning and in the use of language is also a necessary aspect of every other intellectual discipline.

In terms of the current use of language, this means that they remain metaphysical, refusing to think of «God» as only a symbol of the community's faith.

Both gorillas have exhibited a number of creative uses of language.

In summary, Koko's creative use of language in humor, formation of new words, modulation of signs, understanding of metaphor, and self - directed signing provide evidence of both conscious perception and intuitive judgments.

I am so tired of nefarious, euphemistic and meaningless bullshit based on the colourful use of language but without any real thought behind it.

Amos N. Wilder provides an analysis of early Christian uses of language which is extremely helpful.

ENTIRE BOOK The problem of communicating Christian teaching — especially the use of language in bible study.

In a work recently completed, but not yet published, I have explained how the adaptability of animal bodily systems, especially the brain, which Meredith and Stein have remarkably demonstrated in respect of the senses in their The Merging of the Senses and which is seen in infant language - learning in a way discussed by Meltzoff, Butterworth and others, reaches a peak in the case of the human use of language so that it is solely semantic and communicational constraints which determine grammar and nothing universal in grammar is determined by neurology.

As background for any approach to Christian education through the insights of the findings of the philosophers of language, we need to look closely at the uses of language in the Bible, and especially in the Gospels.

No inflated rhetoric was necessary, and the need for brevity led to both liberation and purification in the use of language.

A third use of language is the expression of feelings.

Once we have established the possibility of talking about God we need to look at (A) how the rules of logic apply to this use of language, and (B) what kind of verification is appropriate.

As Christianity moved into the world of the Greeks and the Romans, their uses of language changed to meet the new situation.

Thus, a basic rule for the use of language and imagery in the sermon is this: take nothing for granted.

Therefore, it follows that within the normal use of language God is not a Person.

We shall see enough of the religious melancholy in a future lecture; but melancholy, according to our ordinary use of language, forfeits all title to be called religious when, in Marcus Aurelius's racy words, the sufferer simply lies kicking and screaming after the fashion of a sacrificed pig.

Were the pulpit to acquiesce and promise to speak according to these rules, it would have to forfeit its evocative use of words, its use of language to create new situations, its use of the parable and the myth.

While the scientific use of language to designate is an important function of words and necessary to some disciplines, to permit words only this function would be sterilizing reductionism.

From the standpoint of the use of language, we can say that religious language is incipiently metaphysical language.

He suggests that we look at some uses of language which take us beyond ordinary language.

Guessing at motives aside, what I fear is the loose use of language, especially by bean counters who will find some system (rationing, rating, capitation) to declare non-beneficial benefits not cost - effective and thus no longer available.

This argues rather strongly for allowing the worldly use of language a certain precedence over its typical ecclesiastical employment!

Scholars are finding that Burke's use of language - his taste, his metaphors, and his choice of genres - is inseparable from his ideas, whether they concern Ireland or America, France or India, the church or the slave trade.

It would be a very unnatural use of language and I think that's one of the ways in which language is wise.