Sentence examples for English linguistic from inspiring English sources

According to The Handbook of English Linguistics, generic masculine pronouns and gender-specific job titles are instances "where English linguistic convention has historically treated men as prototypical of the human species".

Now the Welsh name has been displaced to the building's side.But even in English, linguistic uncertainties remain.

One of Mr Morgan's colleagues, Alan Pugh, the deputy education minister, recently told the Assembly that Welsh is being threatened by English "linguistic globalisation".

The poem speaks of "lost lanes," but even if these English lanes have been lost, the English linguistic lanes have not, and doesn't the poem's diction, its history-cocked ear, in fact reclaim them?

This study was conducted in English Linguistic classes in the design of an action research, with the assumption that the explicit instruction of using HOTS in learning linguistics can promote students' learning and their motivation to learn this subject.

As the sun lowers in the sky we drive to the top of the Lebombo range itself, past a journey of giraffe (hours can be happily wasted on that most peculiar of English linguistic tics, the collective noun a crash of rhino, a dazzle of zebra, a sounder of warthog a game at which most rangers excel), until we join the sisal line, or all that can be discerned of it now.

The measures of their Westernization level is analyzed according to Homi K. Bhabha's definition of mimicry which signifies imitating some famous Western brands (iconic mimicry), using English language (linguistic mimicry), utilizing Western-looking models or celebrities, and displaying female bodies (visual mimicry), and resistance.

The upper echelons of Scottish society refused to be intimidated by English cultural and linguistic dominance.

Veterans of the overseas business circuit say that despite the spread of English worldwide, those linguistic gestures promote familiarity by showing that you have done your homework and care about getting along.

Elsewhere, "California English" continues the linguistic intrigue of their debut's "Oxford Comma", "Taxi Cab" adds harpsichord to their sonic armoury, and "Diplomat's Son" makes mischievous play with different tempi of Toots & the Maytals' "Pressure Drop" groove, alternating between dancehall and roots styles.

(Never mind that the People's Daily website last year said the growing number of Chinese terms used in English showed that "linguistic contribution reveals national power").In this section Marking the past, fearing the future Still different Barbarians at the gate ReprintsThe anti-borrowing screed drew sharp criticism, and not just from the microbloggers who routinely mock such pronouncements.