The phrase "linguistic means" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to the methods, techniques, and tools used to communicate in a language. For example, you could say, "The teacher employed various linguistic means to help the student learn French."
Share them with the masses and you end up, suggests both Saussure and the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, with the linguistic means to create a society of equals, which is exactly what the hoarders of social and cultural capital don't want.
From 1936 to 1947 Auerbach taught at the Turkish State University in Istanbul, where he wrote his magisterial survey of the linguistic means of depicting reality in European literature, Mimesis: Dargestellte Wirklichkeit in der abendländischen Literatur (1946; Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature).
Communicative intentions need not be carried out by linguistic means (see Clark 2003).
The most important claim of Hempel (1965a) is that confirmation cannot be adequately defined by linguistic means alone.
On the other hand, "neither individual nor trans-individual" refers to a person who cannot be pinned down or delimited by linguistic means.
We want our students learn how to express their opinion using proper linguistic means and terminology, encourage and enhance their professional competence.
The concept of meaning exchange had to be reinterpreted in this context: semantic phenomena, i.e., mediation by means of linguistic meanings was obviously out of question at this stage.
And to live in linguistic terms means to shift your meaning as word usage ebbs and flows.
Linguistic expressions mean whatever they mean wherever they occur, but in poetry (as in other forms of mentioning) the medium really becomes the message.
Basically, what the linguistic difference means is whether the person is going to remain in the neighborhood and — to put it in female terms, Ferrante's terms — get pregnant every two years, and get beaten up by her husband if dinner is late, or whether she's going to escape this.
Linguistic competence means the proficiency in Chinese listening, speaking, reading, writing, oral interaction and writing interaction.
