Sentence examples for life of language from inspiring English sources

She praises Gerald Stern as a poet whose subject "is the life of life" rather than "the life of language".

But even in the last poems, Merrill is still obsessed, as an artist, with understanding the secret life of language.

He elaborated as follows: The life of language (usually called the history of language) is distinguishable into two main branches: 1. development of language, prehistoric period.

Claude Hagège's On the Death and Life of Language, a translation from a French original published in 2000, is the latest of many books decrying the disappearance of a great many of the world's languages.

Her work is all about the life of language, what language communicates, how and to whom.

They are the symbols of life, of language, of all that we know and feel.

Interestingly, while the rhetorical tradition had looked at tropes as devices whose investigation was motivated by stylistic concerns, historical-philological semantics regarded the psychological mechanisms underlying the production and the comprehension of figures of speech as part of the ordinary life of languages, and as engines of the evolution of all aspects of lexical systems (Nerlich 1992).

In his rich reconstruction of their love of each other, of humor, of life and of language, Goldman has, in effect, granted his own wish.

Some are further isolated from their children's school life because of language barriers or fear that contact with school officials may lead to deportation.

18 In addition to predicting quality of life, severity of language impairment was suggested to be a predictor of mortality, 19 with verbal frequency being the most significant neuropsychological predictor.

SFL places importance on descriptions that are not only contributing to intellectual findings on language typology but also descriptions that are comprehensive enough to provide useful language material for the application in critical contexts of the community life of the language users, such as education, translation, computational applications, forensic applications, and discourse analysis.