Mamet's gift for dramatic dialogue may be God-given, but his scrutiny of language--that nervy vigilance in which the pauses, the coded words, and the sludge of speech are registered, picked over, and served up with gripping accuracy--is the wary habit of a lifetime of on-the-job training in his own abusive household.
Careful scrutiny of evolutionary language and content and analyses of their relationships to evolutionary thinking hold great promise for elucidating how discourse practices may facilitate or constrain student mental models of biological causation.
That has not stilled the speculation by the news media, including scrutiny of her body language leaving the field Thursday (bad), analysis of a playful toss of a ball at a fellow player in a recent training session (good) and the fact that she did not sing along to the national anthem before Germany's last game (very bad).
The results revealed salient links between situational, linguistic and functional features of the four pharmaceutical registers under scrutiny and showed that patterns of language use differ considerably due to topic- and function-related differences between the text types, despite their dealing with a similar theme, namely with medicines or medicinal products.
Language is a problematic area in research [ 11], but much of the scrutiny about language and how it is used to present research focuses on the use of jargon or exclusionary language.
There is a myth that one fifth of the genes that each of us bears in our cells are patented, but this does not quite stand up to close scrutiny: the language used in many of these patents does not necessarily preclude their use.
The logic goes that the currency of language is more flexible, less subject to scrutiny when it comes from our own mouths and we can easily justify remarks as jokes.
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This kind of language must be approached carefully, however, and demands close scrutiny now more than ever.
