Trethewey and Hongo emphasized that civic participation at its best is grounded in purposeful, thoughtful language.
Mr. Bush, his demeanor solemn and his language purposeful, compared those who carried out the attacks Sept. 11 on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon to the Nazis.
The show's purposeful purpling of the language is never condescending or mean; it's fun.
The diminishment of language is purposeful, of course (though a poke in the eye nonetheless), and it is furthered by other factors.
At such joyous times, Nana's unprintable language is suddenly purposeful.
That is to say, on the nativist view, language as the purposeful manifestation of inner life arose from behavior which was originally altogether unintended.
Speakers of Hawai'an, Quechua and Saami have also benefited from purposeful efforts to preserve their languages and cultures and to engage the younger generation in their native language and culture.
Because language generation is a purposeful activity motivated by internal goals, it is difficult to draw a boundary between goal-directed thinking and the ensuing production of linguistic output.
We have used the term "rhetorical strategy" here in the theoretical sense to indicate language strategies that are purposeful, are targeted towards a particular audience, and serve a persuasive function.
A formality of diction is intermingled with contemporary vernacular phrasing, a purposeful anachronism that is mirrored in the body language of the actors.
