Sentence examples for misuses of language from inspiring English sources

First, it is a way of showing that when disputes permit no resolution, the difficulties are due to misuses of language, to subtle conceptual confusions.

1932? Belgium Luce Irigaray, (born 1932?, Belgium), French linguist, psychoanalyst, and feminist philosopher who examined the uses and misuses of language in relation to women.

This nominal premise serves mostly to allow Baker to range at large in the world of poetry and beyond, musing and riffing on the uses (and misuses) of language.

With a yard-tall head of hair that looks like cotton candy, Ms. Tauber offers a cartoon version of Mrs. Malaprop: sputtering, fuming, fawning and frequently underlining with gesture and voice the famous misuses of language to which her character gave name.

Brouwer was also very interested in Mannoury's reflections on the uses and misuses of language in mathematics and philosophy.

But the continual and radical misuses of language by conservatives seem to me (as a long-time observer of language) truly extraordinary and quite dangerous.

Orwell, writing during the Cold War, was especially worried about the ideological misuse of language.

Mr. Obama's assertion that justice was done was "a total misuse of language," Mr. Robertson said.

On excess Adam Phillips's misuse of language suggests muddled thinking, and undermines his argument ("Insatiable creatures", 8 August).

He held that philosophical perplexities often arise from a misunderstanding or misuse of language and that the way to resolve them is by "logical analysis of language".

In other work, Dr. Holzman studied the misuse of language that is characteristic of schizophrenics and the accompanying disorder in their thoughts.