Sentence examples for experiments of language from inspiring English sources

Modernism basically started this off, with a man bumming around Dublin or a woman buying flowers for a party serving as a framework for far-flung experiments of language and consciousness.

Wright became aesthetically restless almost immediately, though, and during the 1980s she began writing poems that sounded less and less like Arkansas porch talk and more and more like the egghead experiments of the Language poets.

This is illustrated by Putnam's own Twin Earth thought experiment (see Philosophy of language).

They turned from epistemology to semantics, and found that one of the most influential thought experiments in the philosophy of language elicits different intuitions across cultural groups.

A writer experiments with the tools of language to observe and hypothesize in order to justify an interpretive conclusion.

In "The Body Artist" Mr. DeLillo seemed to be experimenting with this sort of language as a way of channeling his heroine's inner life and extending the sympathetic attention to character he evinced in "Underworld," but in "Cosmopolis" this intent seems to have faded away.

The book, then, is as much an experiment in the combination of language games as it is an objective "report".

'I, of In-can des-cent, will ex-tri-cate myself from this whole ca-boo-dle.' " In traveling the country of language, she experiments with making fictions.

He became a psychiatrist and worked at the prestigious Burgholzli Mental Hospital, where he developed a series of language association experiments that brought him fame throughout Europe and America.

The magazine's best critics always shied away from the wilder shores of the avant-garde, from the language experiments of Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the dream world of the surrealists to the populist modernism of the Beats.

Far from retiring altogether, 48-year-old Whelan is simply moving on – to experiment with a new kind of language.