Sentence examples for constitutes language from inspiring English sources

"The only thing that constitutes language … is that one word leads to another, each word is, so to speak, summoned, and on its side holds open the further progress of speaking" (Palmer 2001, 67).

The question with regard to technology in the philosophy of technology parallels discussions in the philosophy of science about how properly to demarcate science from nonscience, in the philosophy of religion about how best to describe religion, and in the philosophy of language about how to characterize what constitutes language.

Already in 1795 he drew a clear distinction between the physical sound of nature on the one hand and the "articulated" sounds that constitute language on the other.

What constituted language, according to Saussure, was "the somehow mysterious fact that the thought-sound implies the divisions which are the ultimate units of linguistics.

What constitutes a language, as distinct from a dialect, is a vexing question, and opinion varies on just how many Romance languages are spoken today.

Though his skill and intelligence are fierce, his war was primarily with his times (this clip from a 1978 gig in Phoenix, in which Carlin plays around with what really constitutes bad language, hasn't aged well).

She wrote: This science constitutes the language through which alone we can adequately express the great facts of the natural world, and those unceasing changes of mutual relationship which, visibly or invisibly, consciously or unconsciously to our immediate physical perceptions, are interminably going on in the agencies of the creation we live amidst.

Much of this work is focused on understanding chemical signals in the sea and how transmission of these chemicals among organisms constitutes the language of life on a reef, altering organism behaviors in ways that can facilitate reef health and recovery or, if interfered with, cause reef decline and initiate the biotic death spiral that modern reefs seem to be experiencing.

Also: what exactly constitutes a language that is endangered?

This clause constitutes "exculpatory language" in which subjects have given up important rights, and NIH doesn't allow it in stem cell lines.

But current data-processing systems, which use magnets to write and read the binary code that constitutes computer language, can only work so fast.