Sentence examples for a cultural language from inspiring English sources

What we need is nothing short of a revolution -- a cultural language revolution.

He was a poet, and published many poems in Afrikaans, making him a progenitor of the development of Afrikaans as a cultural language.

Somatic symptoms have been described as part of a cultural language of affective disorders that, if misinterpreted by the clinician, can lead to unnecessary diagnostic procedures or to inadequate treatment [ 28].

Once more, a universal cultural language to a large extent unified aims in the scattered languages; English still plays this role, though it appears to be slowly declining.

"What's new is that English is now an Asian cultural language," said Shirley Geok-lin Lim, a Chinese-Malaysian poet and novelist who came here two years ago from California to head the English Department at the University of Hong Kong.

For centuries New Persian has also been a prestigious cultural language in western Central Asia, on the Indian subcontinent, and in Turkey.

But mainstream American religion -- Jewish, Christian, and to some degree Muslim -- shares a common cultural language that is deeply rooted in the American experience.

In the South Asian context, there has always been a developed cultural language of male non-conforming sexualities which does not map onto these globalized categories [ 30].

The emergence of English as an Asian cultural language is likely to spread beyond post-colonial locations like Hong Kong.

Would its inevitable mainstream ubiquity lead to a loss of cultural language and their relationship?

"Social enterprise is a common language that bridges cultural, language and geographic boundaries," said Jim Fruchterman, SEA Board Chair.