Sentence examples for shaped by language from inspiring English sources

It would be interesting to know to what extent cultural and societal views and attitudes are shaped by language.

Gorham begins from the premise that periods of rapid and radical change both shape and are shaped by language.

The acquisition of knowledge is, as Sunstein points out, a social process: it is shaped by language, by custom, and, since the Enlightenment, by certain widely accepted standards of evidence and rationality.

Locke's picture of the independent existence of ideas did not imply any particular answer to the question of whether language is shaped by the mind or the mind shaped by language.

In the 1970's and 80's, legions of students and professors in humanities departments embraced the view that the world was a "text" -- that the personal and political were shaped by language and that literary and cultural critics possessed tools as powerful as those of, say, political scientists for understanding the world and effecting social change.

Some memories are shaped by language, others by imagery.

To argue that the "landscapes of possibility" in science are shaped by words articulated by "language-speaking actors" (scientists) is rather like saying that Shakespeare's depiction of human nature was limited by his usage of 16th-century English.

The book's personality is shaped by that language.

We are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth.

Diane W. Frankenstein San Francisco To the Editor: The "cognitive flexibility" enjoyed by bilingual children offers partial confirmation of the hypothesis that our perception of reality is shaped by the language we speak.

As a free country, our story has been shaped by every language and enriched by every culture.