Sentence examples for linguistic thought from inspiring English sources
For a general history of Western linguistic thought, including recent theoretical linguistics, see Seuren (1998).
Prague school, school of linguistic thought and analysis established in Prague in the 1920s by Vilém Mathesius.
Accordingly, part of the pleasure of reading Amis derives from the way that certain linguistic thought patterns are so readily identifiable.
From the work of Roman Jakobson, of the same school of linguistic thought, Lévi-Strauss adopted the so-called distinctive feature method of analysis, which postulates that an unconscious "metastructure" emerges through the human mental process of pairing opposites.
Trained in the exacting methodology of the Neogrammarian school of linguistics, he went far beyond its limits to become a participant in, or a critic of, most succeeding schools of linguistic thought, and he also anticipated some new trends.
The assumption underlying the study is that occult linguistic thought has played an important role in the formation of all modern theories of language which argue for a cognitive function alongside, or instead of, a communicative function of language.
He makes room for non-linguistic thought in humans, recognizing that visual perception and imagination are "in a sense most difficult to analyze, a thinking in color about colored objects" (SK I §37: 305).
His linguistic capacity, thoughts and speech correspond to those of modern man, and he also is knowledgeable about history, politics, philosophy and literature.
Because language is a cultural item, linguistic effects on thought can be characterized as cultural effects.
Indeed, as we shall see below, Crathorn refuses to treat the species or cognitions as linguistic elements of thought.
While, however, few modern readers are likely to be favorably inclined towards the view that the Vedic texts are authorless, these commitments reflect often profound intuitions, elaborated by Kumārila and other Mīmāṃsakas, about the irreducibly linguistic character of thought, and about the reality of the kinds of universals that must be posited to make sense of the objectivity of language.
