Sentence examples for linguistic practices from inspiring English sources

In his new book, Dr. Crystal examines the flexibility and future of this medium, noting linguistic practices ranging from the surprising survival of the Anglo-Saxon plural ending -en in Net slang (as in "vaxen" as a plural of VAX computer) to details on who brags more on academic newsgroups (men) and the probable demise of smiley faces.

Linguistic practices reflect our conceptual practices, how we think and conceptually respond to incoming perceptual information.

But in what sense do mathematical objects depend on our linguistic practices and psychological processes?

For the criterion insists on the ontological independence of "our linguistic practices and psychological processes".

What exist are the things that are ontologically independent of our linguistic practices and psychological processes.

A variety of norms, social and linguistic practices, agent interactions and games presuppose common knowledge (Aumann 1994).

This linguistic practice places Edano, who speaks on behalf of the government, in an awkward position.

But if the rule for applying the word cow is derived entirely from linguistic practice, what would make this case merely a mistake and not a change in the rule and thus a change in what the word cow means?

This view, originally articulated in "The Meaning of 'Meaning,' " was later elaborated on to highlight further features of linguistic practice, the most important being context-dependence, or the variation of meaning with speaker background and conversational context.

Nevertheless, Burge argues, their linguistic practice is governed by convention.

How do we confer significance upon inherently meaningless linguistic expressions by employing them in linguistic practice?