"There are youngsters who study Chinese who are not Chinese in origin, but they want to study it for linguistic purposes, business purposes," he said.
Whereas first generation signers relied primarily on their dominant hands, second generation signers added their heads and third generation signers added their faces, all for specific linguistic purposes.
Sellars offers a different explication of predication, according to which the focus is not on any relation between an object and some abstract entity, but qualifying and arranging names to suit them for certain linguistic purposes.
The current research deals with the English language; Further research should be carried out on other languages and in other countries and cultures, in which students may have different perceptions, and attitudes towards using online social networks for educational (linguistic) purposes.
This widening of the domain of quantification has to serve some (extra- linguistic purposextra- linguistic
No. First, even though the psychological abilities and mechanisms that Tomasello posits have been selected for linguistic functions, these abilities and mechanisms have continued to be used (and, plausibly, selected) for non-linguistic purposes, such as face recognition, theory of mind, non-linguistic perception, etc.
This fact about underdetermination is implied by Davidson's Thesis of the Autonomy of Linguistic Meaning, according to which once a bit of language has acquired a conventional meaning, it can be used for any of a variety of extra-linguistic purposes (Davidson, 1979).
The scene, one of the only extended prose pieces, is a demonstration of the psychological and linguistic cross-purposes that make an immigration interview so daunting.
NetBase is a new general-purpose linguistic search platform based on the idea of reading sentences and parsing their deeper meanings.
Though the building is of great linguistic interest, its original purpose is not clear.
Bentham, by contrast, needed the 'sensible' phenomenon of a perceptible, intelligible linguistic act for his purpose of expounding the nature of law by reference to empirical phenomena.
