These alternative relations may be depicted as follows: It is the fact that writing is an expression of language rather than simply a way of transcribing speech that gives to writing, and hence to written language and to literacy, its special properties.
For example, he criticized mathematicians who defined a variable to be a number that varies rather than an expression of language which can vary as to which determinate number it may take as a value.
"You think of what is going on in the world today, the appalling generalisations and expressions of language I never thought I would hear in my lifetime, or see it," she says.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, an Austrian-born philosopher, discussed informally the "language-games"—or rule-governed activities connecting a language with the world that are supposed to give the expressions of language their meanings; but these games have scarcely been related to any systematic logical theory.
Even apart from the context of obligationes, "institution" (or "imposition") was regarded as the assigning of meaning to expressions of language.
Rather, we are investigating materiality within the surrounding context, which encompasses a much broader domain than the expression form of language.
The latter two strata are the expression form of language and hold a very different realizational relation between each other and with the other strata than those of semantics and lexicogrammar, which are the content of language.
The expression form of language is just that – it is the "material" or "physical" means of communicating, the sounds or markings on a page whereby the inner meanings and organization of those meanings are coded into a conventionalized output system.
In the first place, they suggest that, if semantic holism is true, it is impossible to understand how a speaker of a language can learn the meaning of an expression, for any expression of the language.
By contrast, imagine Turkey, a more advanced member state of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, allowing the free expression of Kurdish language and culture.
An expression of our language is either a first-order formula or one of the symbols listed above under (ii).
