The phrase "authority of language" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the power, influence, or legitimacy that language holds in communication, culture, or society.
Example: "The authority of language shapes our understanding of identity and culture in profound ways."
Alternatives: "power of language" or "influence of language".
It's linguistic, too -- at least in the eyes of Dr. David Crystal, an eminent Welsh authority on language and the producer of many scholarly volumes, including the Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language.
This proposition, indeed, is said to be justified by the authority of certain language in the opinion of this court in the case of Poindexter v. Greenhow, 114 U. S. 270 , 5Sup.
This process has seen scientific ideas about "emotion" and the "emotional" becoming widely spread through popular culture and politics, in a way that has traded on the scientific, psychological, and medical authority of that language.
The area of Islamic culture extends from western Africa to Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines, but its heartland is Arabia, and the prime importance and special authority of the Arabic language were to remain largely unquestioned after the spread of Islam.
The authority of woman in language – her ability both to articulate herself and to make herself intelligible – is worlds away from her dispossession in art, the radicalism of her gaze, her struggle with the complicity of her own image as painterly subject and muse.
The critical phrase is "by or under the authority of the author". That statutory language and the Supreme Court's guidance produce a definition of an author as the party who actually creates the work, that is, the person who translates an idea into an expression that is embodied in a copy by himself or herself, or who authorizes another to embody the expression in a copy.
By the time of his death, he was perhaps the leading authority on the language of his country.
At the same time, Mr. Ravitch's plan calls for stripping the governor of some of his current authority to add language to the budget that, in effect, makes new law.
"Just now, when you told the waitress that you were an authority on the language of the sea gull," I said, changing the subject, "did you mean it?" Gould's face lit up.
It thus shifts the focus of meta-discourse about dao from grounding its authority in nature to issues of language and the role of mingwords in dao-ing.
Equally consequential, he imagined a very particular mission for the Museum that only he had the moral authority to envision and the precision of language to powerfully articulate.
