Sentence examples for language animals from inspiring English sources

But without language, animals have not been able to tell a researcher whether they recall something.

"They say they have to protect Harvard and Hauser, but how about protecting the field?" Dr. Hauser is one of Harvard's most visible academics, being frequently quoted in articles about language, animals' cognitive abilities and the biological basis of morality.

Analyzing decades of animal-cognition research, he shows that, with the exception of full-fledged language, animals have been shown to exhibit many of the key behaviors that were thought to distinguish humans from animals: the ability to consider the past and the future, to demonstrate empathy and self-awareness, and to anticipate the motives of others.

Among them are: being self-interpreting (the way in which human beings understand themselves forms a significant part of their identity); being language animals (language mediates their relations to others, to the environment, and to themselves); and having identities that are constituted through dialogue.

The Language Animal: The Full Shape of the Human Linguistic Capacity by Charles Taylor (Harvard) The eminent Canadian philosopher argues that language does not merely describe; it constitutes meaning and fundamentally shapes human experience.

In the English language, animal terms also are used pejoratively against men.

The Language Animal begins with a 17th and 18th century debate about the origins of language, specifically whether language created society or society created language.

And in a brief and powerful passage toward the end of The Language Animal he makes the point that we who believe in gay rights, women's rights, human rights, etc. can appreciate Chinese music without, at the same time, disparaging Beethoven or Chopin.

But his ultimate objective in his latest book, The Language Animal, is to demonstrate how we can all live in a more tolerant "flexible" (his word) world if we can learn how to make the most of the resources, above all the resources for communication, we all share.

For the first stage of study selection, the following inclusion criteria were used: Publication in the international peer-reviewed literature English language Animal or clinical (prospective randomized controlled or comparative) studies Histological (animals) and radiological (animals and humans) assessment of crestal bone levels (CBL) after implant placement and nonsubmerged healing.

Because, if I don't, if I don't stand up for what I believe is right, and I don't fight for those who have no spoken-language (animals), then, I simply perpetuate the damage.