Sentence examples for linguistic force from inspiring English sources

"Language scholars are paying attention to the innovative linguistic force of hashtags, and #blacklivesmatter was certainly a forceful example of this in 2014".

Nevertheless, the most thorough example of linguistic force exerted by a single dominating civilization belongs to ancient times: in the Hellenistic era, almost all ancient Greek dialects were replaced by the so-called Koine, based on the dialect of Athens.

Turning on this hapless representative of bourgeois "liberation" the full linguistic force of his anti-heroines' scorn, Witkowski makes it clear that contemporary culture abandons at its peril the heritage of survival tactics which his queens cultivated through the dark years.

First, I think that part of the radioactive linguistic force of "bigot" – as I think you're suggesting – is that the word, and the charge, painfully reminds us that, however wishy-washy or laissez-faire we affect to be, in our secret hearts we retain an irreducible core of prejudice and opinion.

In post-structuralism, the person speaking or acting — the "subject" — was immediately suspect, merely an unwitting, unreliable product of social, psychological, cultural, and linguistic forces beyond her control.

With regard to tonogenesis - at least in some cases - it may be that tone in the phonetic sense has been present all along and only surfaces phonologically when other linguistic factors force the change.

Fata Morgana is a linguistic tour de force set in the aftermath of 9/11 and is both celebrated and controversial.

Also of the 13th century is Āṇḍayya's Kabbigara Kāva ("The Poet's Defender"), in Kannada, a linguistic tour de force, eschewing unmodified Sanskrit forms; and Mallikārjuna's Sūktisudhārṇava, an excellent Kannada anthology of lyrics and passages.

The fact that many of the surviving languages are endangered and some are even on the point of extinction bears testimony to inexorable social, economic, linguistic, and demographic forces that continue to marginalize and consume indigenous linguistic and cultural minorities.

These opposing linguistic and psychological forces come together spectacularly in the "rudely stamped" figure of Richard III, who is both a monster of murderous design and a master of disarming fluency.

In Afghanistan and Iraq, the armed forces did not have the appropriate intelligence, linguistic capabilities, weapons, equipment, force structures, civil affairs know-how or capacity to train security forces in other countries.