Although unique particulars are the objective references of language and thought, and we may have firm beliefs about them, conceptual mind does not fully grasp their real nature.
As a consequence, the objective meanings of language, defined in dictionaries as invariant regardless of users, also bear subjective connotations for language users due to their unique histories of linguistic experience, even though for practical purposes of communication they are able to set aside such differences.
Further objective measures of language proficiency were used (in later sessions with the same subjects), including a bilingual verbal fluency test, and a bilingual interview; they are reported in detail elsewhere, a paper focused on language proficiency measurements of both groups (Festman, Rodriguez-Fornells, & Münte: Language control abilities of late bilinguals, submitted).
Since China started its open-door policy in the late 1970s, the objective of English language education has been set as developing learners' communicative competence in English, i.e., the ability to use English as a tool of communication.
Though her objective of original-language productions by top international casts was clear from the start, she has often had to pursue her Velvet Revolution by indirection: better Czech opera in English or with imported casts than no Czech opera at all.
This is the objective of the Frenetic language [71].
The purpose of this exercise, Nagel explained, was to demonstrate that, however impossible it might be for humans to imagine, it was very likely that there was something it was like to be a bat, and that thing, that set of facts — the bat's intimate experience, its point of view, its consciousness — could not be translated into the sort of objective language that another creature could understand.
A needs analysis questionnaire was administered to 120 students of Spanish at The University of Hong Kong with the objective of finding out what language skill they perceived to be the most problematic in the target language.
The compilation of a real corpus must be done in an objective way to extract samples of language used in an everyday context and with the minimum interference.
The White House's proposed remedy, namely military tribunals, merely compounds the problem.When Mr Bush decided to frame his foreign policy in the sort of language and objectives previously associated with Woodrow Wilson, John Kennedy or Ronald Reagan, he was bound to be greeted with cynicism.
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