"linguistic choice" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to the words and phrases a person chooses when they are speaking or writing. For example, "He made a very interesting linguistic choice when describing his experience."
They are here as — take your linguistic choice — undocumented immigrants or illegal aliens.
The preferred terminology at the moment – and, perhaps, what Cumberbatch was grasping for – is "people of colour", a linguistic choice that may very well evolve and become obsolete too, in its time.
By drawing on computational and psycholinguistic approaches to explore linguistic choice, O'Donnell argues that the proper home of linguistic choice is in the process of production of the text rather than the text/product itself.
According to Geoffrey Leech and Mick Short, style refers to "linguistic choice in general" (1981: 32) or, in a more restricted sense, to "those aspects of linguistic choice which concern alternative ways of rendering the same subject matter" (31).
Between a crystal and a eucaryotic cell, there exists a plethora of levels of organization; how we define life is likely to remain "no more than a matter of linguistic choice" (Cleland and Chyba 2002, 391).
Systemic Functional Linguistics (Halliday 1973 , 1985 , 19931994; etc)., a socio-semiotic theory of language, views grammatical metaphor as a linguistic choice that is very unlikely to be acquired outside of the academic or professional setting for a number of reasons.
Drawing on the constraints and affordances of community gives rise to linguistic choices and skilled linguistic action.
"I'm not fond of the linguistic choices, how it rolls off the tongue," Ms. Brown said.
I used the additional pages to reconstruct some of my initial translation solutions — though again avoiding the temptation to replicate Singer's signature linguistic choices in English.
Two experiments are reported which examine how manipulations of visual attention affect speakers' linguistic choices regarding word order, verb use and syntactic structure when describing simple pictured scenes.
Language is a ubiquitous part of our lives, yet most of us give little conscious thought to the many linguistic choices we make every day.
