Sentence examples for conventions of the language from inspiring English sources

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This is, as he confesses, a difficult solution of the case to maintain, for one might ask where the words get their signification if not from the conventions of the language?

Study the literary conventions of the language thoroughly.

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However, Burge does not hold merely that the default status is granted by a convention of the "language game".

And yet Shakespeare is still bedevilled by conventions of how the language is to be approached – the "RP" (received pronunciation) approach.

They brought to modern Turkish poetry the language of the streets, exalting in its wit and refusing the formal conventions of the official language and the oppressive, authoritarian world they echoed.

Research (e.g., Bardovi-Harlig, Hartford, Mahan-Taylor, Morgan, & Raynolds 1991; Cutting, 2008; Huang, 2010) suggests that language learners need pragmatic instruction to gain exposure to samples of social, cultural, and discourse conventions of the target language.

Supplemented names are not written into the lexicon because a core value like (daughter 21) is not a convention of the natural language at hand.

Higgins's dialogue achieves a kind of baroque dinginess that is both completely _un_realistic (surely real criminals are as boring and hemmed in by the conventions of language as the rest of us) and in the echo-chamber of this novel, completely convincing.

Finally, beyond the file name convention, the content of the language files needs to follow a simple syntax.

Other tasks mentioned in this context involved critically evaluating the reliability of historical sources, getting to know the linguistic conventions of a language, and integrating the various elements derived from historical sources into a consistent narrative of a particular epoch.

In this she closely resembles Humpty Dumpty, like him refusing to be bound by the conventions of language: to use words to mean what they mean to other speakers.

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