The youngsters on the second floor are scanning Kenya's online media for "dangerous speech": phrases likely to foster paranoia, distrust, hatred and violence in the run-up to next week's election.
Jimmy Carter was not referred to by name, but the text borrowed a theme from his "malaise" speech, phrasing it with a touch of urbane languor: "Materialism, ultimately, is boring, and consumerism can build a prison of wants".
The initial comments I received regarded the speed of my speech, phrasing of some question and fidgeting.
If one assumes, with the Externalists, that the main goal of a linguistic theory is to develop accurate models of the structural properties of the speech sounds, words, phrases, and other linguistic items, then the clearly privileged information will include corpora (written and oral)—bodies of attested and recorded language use (suitably idealized).
No wonder Hillary Clinton felt the need to include, in her nomination speech, the phrase "I believe in science".
As a figure of speech the phrase the Scottish identity is not so much an oxymoron as a zeugma, since it unites widely disparate elements in a concept which, no matter how irrational, has persisted.
In the songs, we catch the manner of speech and phrase, the wit and humor, the dreams and aspirations, the nonsense, jollity, the pathos and struggle of an entire people".
Although there is general agreement now among translators and scholars that Mr. Ahmadinejad did not commit his country to the project of destroying the state of Israel in that 2005 speech, the phrase that was wrongly attributed to him then remains so firmly rooted in the popular imagination that it is frequently used as evidence of Iran's genocidal intentions.
With the ChemicalTagger [29] system, we have built a natural language framework which recognises parts of speech and phrase.
When I ran the speech that phrase kept occurring to me.
