But the presence of pictures is not a new thing in printed narrative: William Caxton included woodcuts in the first books he printed in English, and some of the greatest novels in the language were conceived from the beginning as being accompanied by pictures.
When the construct of English language proficiency was conceived, the project team drew on the theory of communicative competence (Canale and Swain 1980; Hymes 1972) and Bachman and Palmer's model of communicative language ability (Bachman 1990; Bachman and Palmer 1996).
The logic programming language PROLOG (Programmation en Logique) was conceived by Alain Colmerauer at the University of Aix-Marseille, France, where the language was first implemented in 1973.
"From the start, the nation was conceived in language, not in blood," Benedict Anderson wrote in 1983 in his classic book "Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism".
While the majority of countries at the Warsaw UN Climate Talks seemed to be in denial about how the world has changed since the UNFCCC (the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) was conceived, body languages – and outcomes - were clear.
ICF was conceived as a common language and data standard, capable of being used for multiple purposes and in different settings.
The archive was conceived as bilingual, so all the Spanish-language text has had to be translated.
The fact that these English-language ditties were well-known in school the year I was conceived tells its own story about the displacement of native Gaelic.
Kanatsiohareke was conceived as a bulwark of "longhouse" values: reverence for nature, parents, ancestral spirits, and the language.
Painstakingly, a plan was conceived.
