Sentence examples for students of language from inspiring English sources

Students of "language ideologies" look at local ideas about how language functions.

INSIDER VERBIAGE The conference always gives students of language an earful of industry jargon in vogue among marketers.

JARGON WATCH -- Each year, the conference gives students of language a look at the buzzwords and phrases that are in vogue among marketers.

It is one thing to say that speech acts are a phenomenon of importance for students of language and communication; another to say that we have a theory of them.

"Students of languages other than English gain the knowledge to understand cultural practices (what people do) and products (what people create) and to increase their understanding of other cultures as well as to interact with members of those cultures," according to the Texas school standards for teaching foreign languages.

Crucially for Gallimard, Paulhan was a student of language and semantics, and thus open to the experimentations of dada and the surrealists.

He arranged his findings in a compilation entitled Sic et non ("Yes and No"); and for it he wrote a preface in which, as a logician and as a keen student of language, he formulated basic rules with which students might reconcile apparent contradictions of meaning and distinguish the various senses in which words had been used over the course of many centuries.

Percy was a philosopher manqu, a student of language and the human condition, with a droll comic touch.

In these interviews, recorded over four decades, Halliday recounts and discusses his own experience as a student of language and linguistics in Britain and China and his career as a linguist, and explores key notions and concepts of SFL, the evolution of the theory around the world, its place in the field of general linguistics, as well as its many sites of application.

Only one of Richard Tansey's four sons went into art -- one is an economist, another a banker and the last a student of language -- but Mark Tansey's painting seems apt for the child of a scholar.

Finally, the test results were compared and they revealed that a curriculum and materials interwoven with students' needs can remarkably change students' perception of language learning and cognitive processes in this respect.