Sentence examples for social languages from inspiring English sources

The folk tend to operate with an ontology of social languages that most linguists reject.

This seems paradoxical given the individualism that seems to follow from taking idiolects rather than social languages as one's focus.

Someone taking an idiolectal perspective on language regards idiolects (in something like the first sense above) as having ontological and/or investigative priority over social languages, which are conceived of as more or less overlapping idiolects.

"Skin to skin, parent to child, touch is the social language of our social life.

Symptoms include social, language and emotional problems and autism-like behaviour.

Like the language of the commandments, porches speak to me in a language that is archaic -- a social language that we don't speak anymore.

Technical language was as easy for her as social language was difficult, and it now provided her with an entry into science.

To this end, the AME stopped framing the debate in the political and social language of equality, and started framing it in the emotional language of love.

Students are taken out of classes at least once a day for intensive English sessions, while mainstream classes help them learn social language, among other things.

Yet after being given a diagnosis of Stage 2 ovarian cancer, Ms. Allen learned that there was really no social language for dealing with her predicament.

And here Temple, still quite abnormal in her understanding of ordinary or social language — she still missed allusions, presuppositions, irony, metaphors, jokes — found the language of science and technology a huge relief.