Sentence examples for discuss language from inspiring English sources

Mr. Crystal, who is British, is that rare academic linguist who can discuss language authoritatively without resorting to the polysyllabic jargon that often serves as a wall around that realm of scholarship.

As we move from phonology, to lexicogrammar, and on to semantics and context, we discuss language in increasingly abstract terms.

In the paper, we report on the design of the modeling language, on its integration with the enterprise modeling method, present the language specification, and discuss language applications in the context of the assessment of an internal control system.

As the debate continues over the best way to shield copyrighted material from being pirated, we invited David Sohn, General Counsel for the Center for Democracy and Technology and Viacom's General Counsel, Michael Fricklas to discuss language that should be included in any future SOPA/PIPA legislation.

Brief Interviews is a series in which writers discuss language, literature, and a handful of Proustian personality questions.

Brief Interviews is a new series in which writers discuss language, literature, and a handful of Proustian personality questions.

"We all just discussed language," Ms. Harden said.

If that means discussing language itself as well as what it expresses – the very stuff of phonology, syntax and semantics – then good.

Canada, Australia, and others are finally using terms like "though we don't prefer it, we can live with this" when discussing language.

Discussing language, Darwin observed: That which distinguishes man from the lower animals is not the understanding of articulate sounds, for, as everyone knows, dogs understand many words and sentences.

In the past half century or so, however, this situation has produced a serious quarrel, political as well as linguistic, with two combatant parties: the prescriptivists, who were bent on instructing us in how to write and speak; and the descriptivists, who felt that all we could legitimately do in discussing language was to say what the current practice was.