Sentence examples for shape of language from inspiring English sources

Underlying all was a peerless sense of craft and of the shape of language.

His The Sound Shape of Language, with Linda R. Waugh, was published in 1979.

If we take Taylor's view of the ever-evolving shape of language, we can understand how things which would have been unintelligible until very recently now make perfect sense.

Whorf noted that to communicate thoughts and experiences with members of a speech community speakers must use the linguistic categories of their shared language, which requires moulding experiences into the shape of language to speak them a process called "thinking for speaking".

We enjoy the many shapes of language, in words and images, especially when the storytellers are ancient and perhaps even wise.

Because of the superficial changes in the phonetic shape of the language over 2,000 years and because of the borrowing of words from neighbouring cultures, the continuity of the Indo-European heritage in Albanian has been underrated.

This chapter describes the various concepts in the shape of VHDL language to the reader.

The group × emotion interaction effect was non-significant (F (4,130) = 1.23, Wilk's Lambda = 0.96, p = 0.300, η 2 = 0.04), reflected in the similar profile shape of body language reading performance for HC and BD participants in Fig. 1.

In fact, we are moving so far from the binary that we are changing the shape of our language to match these identities.

I could understand some of it just through the rhythm of the lines, through the sounds and shapes of its language, and I wanted to feel that language pass through me.

They never got to learn the beauty and shape and structure of language".