Sentence examples similar to academic linguistic from inspiring English sources

But of course "yet another anti-Bush, anti-Iraq war polemic by a Guardian contributor" does not have quite the same appeal to a publisher as an anti-Bush polemic dressed up as a serious piece of academic-linguistic research.

The results showed that the program stimulated a significant improvement in language skills, academic performance, linguistic intelligence self-efficacy, as well as linguistic competence, in the experimental groups.

Much of the early history of academic linguistics was spent reconstructing European "proto-languages", our best guesses at earlier forms of familiar linguistic groups.

I was a student representative at my law school and every meeting focused on the low academic and linguistic level of many students who shouldn't have been there.

In California, the bellwether for all things pertaining to illegal immigration, large numbers of U.S.-born Hispanic students continue to be classified as nonnative "English language learners" through much of their school years, even though they speak English, because their academic and linguistic skills are so deficient.

These studies, however, focused on students who differed in academic ability, linguistic ability, ethnicity, and/or economic background.

Sure, Gardner proposes academic (verbal-linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial) and musical abilities, which are already part of the Federal definition.

In 1974 he was the founding editor of Verbatim, a respected quarterly newsletter on language that melded academic treatments of linguistic topics ("Southern Amerind Lexical Contributions") and more amused and amusing stories with titles like "Ooglification in American English Slang" and "Prep School Slanguage".

To rub more salt into the textual wound, the "esoteric" Professor Middleton refers to academic concepts like "linguistic signification" to the Barney Fife-like befuddlement of those around her. Either Ms. Brevoort deeply underestimates her target audience, or the characters are all half-wits.

Further, Halliday accepts the implication of this view for academic scholarship, treating linguistic theories as also ideological.

This is not merely an academic debate about linguistic practices.