Sentence examples for ordinary discourse from inspiring English sources

Semantics is concerned with what certain expressions mean (or refer to) in ordinary discourse.

The opposites of ordinary discourse are identified in the supreme instance.

Mr. Thompson's Othello, on the other hand, seems incapable of ordinary discourse.

Friedman takes inspiration from the notebooks through which Beethoven communicated with friends and acquaintances once his deafness had made ordinary discourse impossible.

Truth, in metaphysics and the philosophy of language, the property of sentences, assertions, beliefs, thoughts, or propositions that are said, in ordinary discourse, to agree with the facts or to state what is the case.

Context sensitivity, of various kinds, is ubiquitous in ordinary discourse.

Ordinary mentalistic discourse, he held, is comparable to the medieval discourse about epileptics as being "possessed by the devil".

Ordinary mentalistic discourse, he held, is comparable to the medieval discourse about epileptics as being "possessed by the devil". If one now "identified" demon possession with a certain medical condition of the brain, this would really be an assertion that there is no such thing as a demon-possessed state: the medieval way of looking at the matter is thus rejected.

Without the lie, the greased wheels of ordinary social discourse would grind to a halt.

She naturally radiates a certain otherworldliness, as of a creature who has just been zapped to Earth from a distant galaxy and has not yet discovered how to manipulate the tools of ordinary human discourse.

Our current panics about causing "offence" are, at their best and most generous, an acknowledgement of how language can encode and enact power relations (my freedom of "offending" speech may be your humiliation, a confirmation of your exclusion from ordinary public discourse).