Sentence examples for described language from inspiring English sources

It rather draws attention to the need to differentiate between what is described, language, and the phenomenon for which the description is done (Halliday 2009).

Participants also described language as a major barrier to effective provision and use of health services.

Participants described language as a major barrier in the care encounters.

Pretending that there is only one correct way to describe language is confusing and untrue.

The Swiss linguist and thinker Ferdinand de Saussure describes language as a form of treasure that is shared with others when we speak.

So, back with the new gold standard of "subordinating conjunctions": all this kind of description does is describe language as if humans invented it for the sole purpose of fitting it together.

Like the CEFR, the CECR adopts a functional approach in describing language skills and linguistic knowledge.

SFL has always maintained that language is big, and it appears natural that linguistics, which describes language, should be bigger still.

Matthiessen and Nesbitt (1996: 59) state that Systemic functional linguistic theory is itself interpreted as a semiotic resource for modelling and describing language.

It is one of the resources drawn upon for investigating the nature of the language system, for describing language variation and for understanding the role of language as social activity.

The CEFR describes language proficiency in reading, writing, speaking, and listening on a 6-level scale, combined in three superordinate clusters of ascending language proficiency (A, B, and C; see Fig. 2).