Sentence examples for viewed language from inspiring English sources

This indeed was how they were regarded by Plato's adversaries, the Sophists, who viewed language merely as a tool for influencing people, as in law courts and assemblies.

The modistae, grammarians of the mid-13th to mid-14th century who viewed language as a reflection of reality, looked to philosophy for explanations of grammatical rules.

Closely allied with behavioral psychology, it viewed language as a social phenomenon and the linguist's task as the compilation of minutely detailed grammatical inventories of individual languages.

Linguists have long viewed language as a facilitator for group cohesion and identity.

The suggestions that language drives cognition and perception had previously been made by scholars that viewed language structure as a driving force of cognitive and perceptual processes (von Humboldt 1836; Whorf 1956).

"Ken viewed languages as if they were works of art," said Dr. Samuel Jay Keyser, a friend and M.I.T. colleague.

"Deconstructionism views language as a slippery and inherently false medium that always reflects the biases of its users," the Times advised its readers when it broke the news of de Man's wartime journalism.

Thus it seems natural to view language as merely an accessible intermediate bearer of vagueness.

Fairclough's (1993) ideas stem from viewing language as being both socially constitutive and socially determined.

For example, at the strata of lexicogrammar, the linguist is interested in viewing language as a system of wording and as such, the categories which are relevant at this stratum are those relating to the grammatical properties of language.

According to Chad Hansen (1989: 111), Mengzi did not view language as being an innate system which contained the essence of proper social norms, and instead believed that all traditional Confucian conventions were 'wired' into the human heart-mind (xin).