The phrase "alive language" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in contexts discussing languages that are actively spoken and evolving, as opposed to dead languages.
Example: "The study of alive language is essential for understanding cultural dynamics in modern societies."
Alternatives: "living language" or "active language".
That sense of being an observer, of being alive in language more than reality, was part of it.
He was exceptionally alive to language and gesture, to the layers of meaning in every utterance; alive, also, to power play, to conscious and unconscious manipulations.
I don't tell her that I'm looking for a way to keep alive a language that has nothing to do with my life.
This is largely because thousands of descendants of German settlers have stayed in the country, keeping alive their language and cultural traditions.
Chávez is adamant on the need to keep alive a language that is directly descended from the Arawak tongue spoken in the Caribbean at the time of Columbus.
The "seismic shift" caused by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, after a college calligraphy course inspired him to install an unprecedented range of typefaces on the first Mac, is one such tale; another follows the Face designer Neville Brody and his typographical rule-breaking in the 1980s, designed to keep alive "a language of protest".
A linguist hired by the law school's Family Defense Clinic later determined that Ms. Brown's speech was not deficient, but simply "Gullah-like," common to parts of the South where freed slaves had kept alive the language of their forebears.
Far from being a form of therapy, the work of making a readable story of such an experience invites the need for therapy, as you stare at a blank screen, day after day, trying to make your life come alive in language for a potential audience of strangers whose first impulse, you've been trained to assume, will be to recoil in horror at the first mention of self-murder.
If we're going to keep literature and language alive, we have to be alert to the new, the things which aren't like what's been before.
To keep these languages alive, some people write literature in Mayan languages as well as Spanish, so that their culture will not die out forever.
