Sentence examples for idea of a language from inspiring English sources

"I was really excited," she says, "about the idea of a language college with a rural dimension.

This would explain why children learn to speak almost effortlessly.The problem with the idea of a language instinct is that languages differ not just in their vocabularies, which are learned, but in their grammatical rules, which are the sort of thing that might be expected to be instinctive.

In the early 20th century the rapid development of modern mathematical logic (see formal logic) similarly inspired the idea of a language in which grammatical form would be a sure guide to meaning, so that the inferences that could legitimately be drawn from propositions would be clearly visible on their surface.

And Wittgenstein's (1953) influential criticisms of the notion of understanding as an 'inner process,' and of the idea of a language for private sensation divorced from public criteria, could be interpreted in ways that sever (phenomenal) consciousness from intentionality.

While the idea of a language being a bounded unit and monolingualism, inherent in the Eurocentric one-nation-one-language ideology, have been challenged repeatedly, they are particularly difficult to dislodge in global-North discourses where it gets normatively mapped onto a one-language-one-individual norm.

It may only be a dialect, but for some, it can be just as difficult as learning a foreign language, or even harder because one needs to conceptualize the idea of a language that is already known.

Others (see Phillips 1970, for example), following Wittgenstein, have tried to give an explanation of the strangeness of religious language by invoking the idea of a language-game.

These issues will be discussed in Sections 4 and 5. Inspired by Ludwig Wittgenstein's idea of a language-game, Hintikka (1968) introduced the basic framework of what came to be known as game-theoretical semantics (a.k.a. GTS).

Consistent with this point is that in §256 Wittgenstein suggests that one cannot arrive at the idea of a private language by considering a natural language: natural languages are not private, for our sensations are expressed.

The idea of a "virtual language lab" based on established natural language processing technologies is the starting point of a project recently initiated at our institution.

"A lot of kids are turned off by the idea of studying a language because they don't see it as a skill – they see it as an exam to be passed," says Blagona. "The idea of this project is that it's as far removed from their GCSEs as possible".