linguistic expression

collocation in English

meaningsoflinguisticandexpression

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linguistic
adjective
uk
/lɪŋˈɡwɪs.tɪk/
us
/lɪŋˈɡwɪs.tɪk/
connected with language or the study ...
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expression
noun
uk
/ɪkˈspreʃ.ən/
us
/ɪkˈspreʃ.ən/
the act of saying what you think or showing how you feel using words ...
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(Definition oflinguisticandexpressionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoflinguistic expression

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Do they refer to universal notions of emotion varying only in theirlinguisticexpression?
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Formulaicity and fixedness inlinguisticexpressionare another common element in the data.
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There is nolinguisticexpressionof evidence in any of the examples.
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Content and structure may of course have more impact on readability thanlinguisticexpression.
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Linguisticexpressionis thus not a straightforward map of consciousness or thought.
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In effect, the trajectory itself is the simultaneous ' interface ' between all properties of alinguisticexpression.
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The question is whether alinguisticexpressionlike but might be said to ' point ' in this sense.
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Any information on the linear order of alinguisticexpressioncan be read off the phonological structure.
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The papers focus on the representation of a speaker's perspective in discourse and thelinguisticexpressionof self.
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And what is its relation to memory on the one hand and to itslinguisticexpressionon the other?
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Perspective-taking, marked by choice oflinguisticexpression, is a pervasive feature of communication among adult speakers.
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In the most extreme formulation of this view, thelinguisticexpressionof desire is represented as necessarily distinctive in form.
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One very important kind of evidence available to addressees is of course the encoded meaning of thelinguisticexpressionused.
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But it does show how one might sidestep the standard supposition that thought invariably precedes itslinguisticexpression.
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For anylinguisticexpression, the computational component generates a syntactic derivation and a morphological derivation, constructed in tandem.
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That is, there is always some information ' out there ' that must go unexpressed - for which there may be nolinguisticexpressionpossible in that language.
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With the onset of language, linguistic tokens must then be mapped onto preverbal meanings, thereby making nonverbal representational products accessible forlinguisticexpression.
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The data do not allow us to make any statement to the effect that must is thelinguisticexpressionof a discourse-internal source.
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This hypothesis is obviously motivated by our knowledge of the world and is as such not concerned with thelinguisticexpressionof sources.
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Furthermore, he was skeptical that the meaning of alinguisticexpressioncould be given an exact representation, isolated from belief and knowledge about the world.
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We can givelinguisticexpressionto the contents of many of those states - we can articulate the goals sought and the facts assumed.
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