The phrase "act of language" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to the way language is employed in communication or the performance aspect of using language.
Example: "The act of language is essential in conveying meaning and intent in our conversations."
Alternatives: "use of language" or "language performance".
In Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), every act of language is an act of meaning.
Once more the superiority of process over product in language learning is highlighted through autonomous act of language learning.
There he had shown the act of language production, or Articulation to be at one and the same time the constitutive act for the consciousness of self of the speaking individual.
Since language testers began to understand the nature of language testing as a social practice in the 1990s, the growing recognition in the field is that "the act of language testing and the language tests themselves are not neutral but are strongly embedded in political, social and educational contexts" (Shohamy 2007, p. 522).
The word euphemism derives from the Greek word eupheme, which is the act of using language to effect a good omen (in contrast to blaspheme; Burkhardt, 2010).
You've acted in a number of languages.
"Good authors act as models of language for us," she said, her face glowing with excitement.
Mr Robertson considers it may be "possible" for the courts to read the Act of Settlement's language in a way which avoids discrimination against women and some religious faiths but the "express virulence" of the act's anti-Catholic language could only be removed by legislation.
Similar to CBT, ACT acknowledges the relevance of language and cognition in psychopathology and psychotherapy, but ACT does not consider thoughts and beliefs to directly cause other behaviours.
It involves several methods: Language identification is the act of determining the natural language in which a given text is written.
Otherwise, seventeen months before the general election, and despite the welcome offstage diversions of those Supreme Court decisions — affirming same-sex marriage and the Affordable Care Act — the language of the 2016 race has been unnervingly free of thought.
