Sentence examples for picture of language from inspiring English sources

Pretty clearly Scalia is assuming what I have called the static picture of language.

His subversion of this picture of language is not easily summarised without distortion – not least because the nature of the so-called private language argument, or even its existence, is itself hugely contested.

Bringing together a number of new findings from archaeology, history, and field studies of environmental management, Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China provides an updated picture of language relationships, cultural innovations, and intercultural exchanges.

The more than 300 comments (and close to 100 personal e-mails) in response to my last post, "A Picture of Language," ran the glorious gamut from "love it/taught me to write/thank you, Mrs. Wengler!" to "ridiculous waste of time/confusing/who needs it?" I was delighted to see that 400+ people can get passionate in print about the subject.

To do so, somewhat eccentrically, he spends a lot of time on the picture of language advanced in the 1960s by the philosopher Saul Kripke, because he takes this to imply that the meaning of words is fundamentally connected to reality in a reliable way, so that scientific language, too, can point to the world unproblematically.

Chapter seven, "Languages and Cultures", provides an even broader picture of language and learning.

Another approach is the "picture theory of language" of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, according to which a simple sentence presents a person with an isomorphic representation (a "picture") of reality as it would be if the sentence were true.

Now, we seem to be much closer to Wittgenstein's classic picture theory of language (Wittgenstein 1921).

The records provide a picture of a language of the same type as Latin or Common Germanic; that is, one that still maintains a considerable part of the structure of the ancestral Indo-European language and has not lost final or medial syllables.

It has been clear for a long time that these two perspectives, that of the native speaker and that of the foreign linguist, when taken together are complementary to each other, and give a more rounded, dimensional picture of a language than either just taken by itself.

"This next one is a picture of the language structure of the constellation of Orion, believed to be the basis of Mayan," she adds.