"linguistic construction" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to the structure or organization of language, or the way words are put together to convey meaning. For example: "We can clearly see the linguistic construction in the poem through its rhythm and play of words."
This is already shown in the linguistic construction of every sentence.
You say Americans have misunderstood Michel Foucault's ideas about oppression in everyday institutions and Jacques Derrida's notion about the linguistic construction of reality.
Her line readings, with their pregnant hesitations and emphatic dangling clauses, might fit other Mamet works that examine linguistic construction and ambiguity, but here they add a weirdly discordant note.
In addition, future is thinkable only as a linguistic construction [10].
"Tiger, lion, monkey, gong; which of these does not belong?" It would, he said, most likely be stumped, simply because it wouldn't understand the linguistic construction in the second half of the clue.
A theory of conditionals aims to give an account of the conditional construction which explains when conditional judgements are acceptable, which inferences involving conditionals are good inferences, and why this linguistic construction is so important.
The moral to that story may be that you should never engage in a war of words with Ms. Silverman without being prepared to unholster a few linguistic constructions not found in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.
According to this latter gloss, the linguistic constructions concerned which involve hyphenations, unusual prefixes and uncommon suffixes reveal the hidden meanings and resonances of ordinary talk.
In any case, for many readers, the initially strange and difficult language of Being and Time is fully vindicated by the realization that Heidegger is struggling to say things for which our conventional terms and linguistic constructions are ultimately inadequate.
By contrast, states of affairs are the referents or semantic values of declarative sentences as well as of perfect nominals; perfect nominals are linguistic constructions that contain a gerund and can syntactically act as names (e.g., "the rose's being red," cf. Vendler 1967, Bennett 1988).
Of course, as we saw above, these entities were introduced to provide a satisfactory semantic treatment of various sorts of linguistic constructions, and one might well wonder whether it is possible to provide a Tarskian truth theory of the sort sketched above for a natural language without making use of intensions, Russellian propositions, or Fregean senses.
