Sentence examples for linguistic correlates from inspiring English sources

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Recounted is the story of the philosopher Bertrand Russell's talk originally titled "Words and Things"; when this subject was frowned upon as unsuitably plebeian, Russell retitled it "Linguistic Correlates of Epistemological Constructs," and his elitist audience lapped it up.

It criticized the neglect of semantics, and offered reasons for preferring that stratum as the focus for the identification of the linguistic correlates.

Like most newly introduced theoretical categories, the contextual parameters as seen in relation to their linguistic correlates have also undergone changes and developments.

What the discussion shows is that underlying each move is one single issue, namely, that of precision – precision in the conceptualisation of the parameters, in the specification of their features, and precision in identifying their linguistic correlates.

Once the fact of correlation is accepted, all that the analyst need to do is to find some reliable recognition criteria either for the features relevant to each contextual parameter or for its linguistic correlates; either identified correctly would have led to the other.

Propositions and ideas are the objects which can be "grasped" by mental phenomena (subjective propositions, in particular judgments, and subjective ideas) and expressed in language, but — despite their close connection to their mental and linguistic correlates — they must be rigorously distinguished from them.

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Given that geographical proximity rather than belonging to the same linguistic group correlates with genetic relationships (Rangel-Villalobos et al., 2000), i.e., the Tarahumara being genetically related to the Pima, the number of individuals with hypertension found in the present study was surprisingly high.

When in [1964] Halliday et al. had introduced the parameters, presenting a perspective on both the nature of the context of situation and of the linguistic features correlating with the three parameters, this, despite its shortcomings, had been a considerable improvement on the previous rather gross statements about the relations of situation and language.

Those expressing objections never took any notice of the fact that in the study of sociolinguistic variation, predictions about linguistic features correlating with situational ones such as age, gender, geographical and/or social provenance, have typically been stated in probabilistic terms, and continue to do so even today.

And that goal as I have argued requires criteria for recognising linguistic and contextual correlates.

With reference to context and meaning-wording, it recommends retaining the integrity of each contextual parameter by treating each as metafunctionally oriented, and, in so doing, it offers general criteria, for recognising the contextual features and their linguistic realisation: the correlates in register variation are subjected to a principle.

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