Language in sentence

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He is splendidly attired in his 68,000-dollar uniform, befitting the role of the French Academy as legislating the correct usage in French and perpetuating the language.

Now, this is one model of how language comes to be: namely, it's legislated by an academy.

But anyone who looks at language realizes that this is a rather silly conceit, that language, rather, emerges from human minds interacting from one another.

So language is not so much a creator or shaper of human nature, so much as a window onto human nature.

In a book that I'm currently working on, I hope to use language to shed light on a number of aspects of human nature, including the cognitive machinery with which humans conceptualize the world and the relationship types that govern human interaction.

So, a problem in explaining how children learn language, a problem in teaching language to adults so that they don't make grammatical errors, and a problem in programming computers to use language is which verbs go in which constructions.

A handy thing to have, because language is infinite, and you can't just parrot back the sentences that you've heard.

How are these construals reflected in language?

First, there's a level of fine-grained conceptual structure, which we automatically and unconsciously compute every time we produce or utter a sentence, that governs our use of language.

You can think of this as the language of thought, or "mentalese."

These are reminiscent of the kinds of categories that Immanuel Kant argued are the basic framework for human thought, and it's interesting that our unconscious use of language seems to reflect these Kantian categories.

It's very hard to find any example of abstract language that is not based on some concrete metaphor.

This kind of indirect speech is rampant in language.

I think the key idea is that language is a way of negotiating relationships, and human relationships fall into a number of types.

Well, what does this have to do with language?

Well, language, as a social interaction, has to satisfy two conditions.

On the other hand, with indirect language, if you issue a veiled bribe, then the dishonest officer could interpret it as a bribe, in which case you get the payoff of going free.

So to sum up: language is a collective human creation, reflecting human nature, how we conceptualize reality, how we relate to one another.

And then by analyzing the various quirks and complexities of language, I think we can get a window onto what makes us tick.

It's her language I will learn."

That's when language begins.

And second, that language is one of the most profound things that separate us all over the world.

And everywhere I go the barrier is: "We want this, but we need it in our language."

So here's what we think we want to do: Imagine giving a lecture and being able to talk to people in their own native language simultaneously.

And we currently have access to eleven language pairs.

Students may display captions in their native language.

I used to work for an educational publisher, and as a writer, I was always told never to use stories or fun, engaging language, because then my work might not be viewed as "serious" and "scientific."

Now another problem was that the language in their textbook was truly incomprehensible.

But here's the thing: There are plenty of people in science education who would look at this and say there's no way that we could ever give that to students, because it contains some language that isn't completely accurate.

I dream of a Wikipedia-like website that would explain any scientific concept you can think of in simple language any middle schooler can understand.

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