A Communist Party in power, which by its nature should be expert in handling the language of ideology, saw its credibility utterly eroded and its language subject to derision by the whole nation.
Although couched in fairly careful language, subject to votes in the Greek parliament and with the proposed privatisation fund to be based in the country rather than – as originally suggested – abroad, the agreement reached deprives Greece of an enormous amount of its sovereignty.
What should be avoided in such circumstances is the invention of a new and untested questionnaire; instead, a diagnostic questionnaire that has been used and validated in multiple languages and cultures can be assumed to have some validity in countries, in languages (subject to good translation) and among cultures where direct validation cannot be performed.
But soon it becomes evident that N's voice doesn't conform to the linguistic rules of any slang we know, and that we have landed in a literary universe where all language is subject to gleeful derangement.
Not only instance models, but also entire modelling languages are subject to change.
The study is focused on introducing innovations in an English language subject in an engineering degree to enhance the development not only of linguistic skills but also of generic skills, a challenge aimed at professional competitiveness and employability.
He is circulating it to some staff members to promote simplicity of language: subject, verb, object.
In fact, there is some evidence that people who can speak more fluently receive better medical care; patients deprived of language are often subject to abuse.
Something unbearable cannot be turned into metaphor (the word comes from the Greek "to bear across" or "to carry over"); it is larger than language, and not subject to the buffeting forces of Eros.
At the same time, self-reported measures of language proficiency are subject to measurement error, an issue that has drawn the attention of researchers (Dustmann and van Soest 2002, 2004; Bleakley and Chin 2004).
In line with a dynamic systems theoretical framework (Dörnyei, MacIntyre, & Henry, 2014; King, 2015), the current study highlighted the importance of contextual factors, and showed that language learners are subject to a myriad of influences, including some beyond the classroom.
