Mr. Kerry, who is from Massachusetts, also spoke in more complicated sentences and more concrete, impersonal language, as reflected in more uses of prepositions and articles and fewer uses of "I".
Whereas Kurds once looked to the West and patiently tried to master the human rights language of the European Union, now at least some of them are looking south, to the more urgent and concrete language of protest movements in the Arab world.
This more concrete knowledge about language can be seen in the quotations from Collette and Janet.
Third, concreteness was highly correlated with S similarity (r = 0.40, CI = 0.27, 0.51), such that the more concrete the words were rated, the more semantically similar across languages they are (this is similar to Tokowicz et al., 2002).
Suggesting an effect on psychological distance, participants in the proximal condition judged the Maldives as geographically closer and described its climate impacts using more concrete (vs. abstract) language.
Later, the ILTA also promulgated the Guidelines for Practice2007 ALTE,) with a view to providing language testers with more concrete professional guidance when developing, administering, and using language tests.
Language understanding is treated as a kind of simulation that maps language onto a more concrete domain of physical action or experience, guided by background knowledge in the form of a temporal Bayesian network.
This is stronger language and a more concrete threat than the White House has made on any other recent issue, including gun control.
For example, an abstract stack can act as the specification of a more concrete one that is now given a structural description in a programming language as an array.
Yet since pure beauty, as exemplified by Greek sculpture, is spiritual freedom immersed in spatial, bodily shape, it lacks the more concrete dynamism of action in time, action that is animated by imagination and language.
