Sentence examples for thinking of language from inspiring English sources

There is a long tradition of thinking of language as conventional in its nature, dating back at least to Aristotle (De Interpretatione).

One might try to explain linguistic meaning directly in terms of the contents of mental representations, perhaps by thinking of language processing as pairing linguistic expressions with mental representations; one could then think of the meaning of the relevant expression for that individual as being inherited from the content of the mental representation with which it is paired.

I'm now thinking of language as the whole evidence of these processes - how the brain thinks, how and why people communicate via the web vs. how we speak to each other in person or nonverbally.

Thinking of languages as shared or communal objects does not, in his view, help in the development of an empirically plausible theory of this process.

2. The claim that in the 1936 paper Tarski is primarily thinking of languages with the conventions of LAr is controversial.

According to Mancosu, Tarski is paradigmatically thinking of languages like LAr*: LAr* is like LAr except that quantifications need not be relativized to "N", and the range of the variables is the set of all individuals of some underlying type theory.

Clarity of perception, clarity of thinking, clarity of language, clarity of behavior in the face of -- often -- the terrifyingly unclear?

"Games offer a way of thinking outside of language through action.

"If all they read is Judy Blume or characters in the "Magic Treehouse" series who are white and go on adventures," said Mariana Souto-Manning, an associate professor at Columbia University's Teachers College, "they start thinking of their language or practices or familiar places and values as not belonging in school".

In the 1936 paper Tarski seems to be thinking paradigmatically of languages in which (as in LAr) there is a predicate ("N" in the case of LAr) that applies exactly to the individuals in the domain of the intended interpretation of the language.

The program seems to have helped the teachers to start thinking about variations of language proficiency as a need for differentiated instruction.