The phrase "linguistic conventions" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to the rules and norms that govern how language is used and structured in a particular context or community. Example: In academic writing, following proper linguistic conventions is crucial for conveying information effectively.
In A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Joyce wrote a Modernist bildungsroman in which the young, developing scholar-artist Stephen Dedalus emerges from the restrictive religious and linguistic conventions within which he has been raised, able, as he says, "to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race".
Its presence in the speech as delivered and distributed to the press (the White House has since corrected its official text) reveals just how anxious the authors were to uphold the stilted linguistic conventions of the form - and for good reason.
It is simply obvious that remarks about truth are not remarks about linguistic conventions.
But linguistic conventions don't always fix the reference by specifying the nature of the reference.
Yet we can hardly master infinitely many linguistic conventions, one for each meaningful sentence.
The discrepancy is likely due to the specific linguistic conventions included in the two studies.
In the Tarkajvālā, he defines conventional truths as an "incontrovertible (phyin ci ti ma log pa) linguistic convention".
According to The Handbook of English Linguistics, generic masculine pronouns and gender-specific job titles are instances "where English linguistic convention has historically treated men as prototypical of the human species".
His dissertation on linguistic convention, written under the supervision of Willard Van Orman Quine (1908 2000), was published as Convention: A Philosophical Study in 1969.
On this view value judgments are not, like mathematical truths, necessary adjuncts to science; nor, obviously, are they true by definition or linguistic convention.
He also produced outstandingly innovative theories on scientific laws, chance, probability, causation, the identity and functionalist theories of mind, (linguistic) convention and a vast range of other issues.
