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1 relations are at the lowest point
Политика: отношения ухудшились как никогдаУниверсальный англо-русский словарь > relations are at the lowest point
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Politics english-russian dictionary > relations are at the lowest point
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n(among, between, with) отношение; связьto advance one's relations — давать новый толчок развитию отношений между своими странами
to arrange economic relations on a long-term basis — строить экономические отношения на долговременной основе
to be set on a course of improved relations with the rest of the world — идти по линии улучшения отношений с остальными странами мира
to bring relations with a country back to a balance — нормализировать отношения с какой-л. страной
to bring about a further improvement in East-West relations — приводить к дальнейшему улучшению отношений между Востоком и Западом
to clear away obstacles to better relations with smb — убирать все, что препятствует улучшению отношений с кем-л.
to contribute to the expansion of friendly relations — способствовать расширению дружественных связей
to cut (off) diplomatic relations with smb — разрывать с кем-л. дипломатические отношения
to damage relations between two countries — портить / ухудшать отношения между двумя странами
to disturb relations between two countries — портить / ухудшать отношения между двумя странами
to downgrade one's diplomatic relations with smb — понижать уровень дипломатических отношений с кем-л.
to ensure stable economic relations — гарантировать / обеспечивать устойчивые экономические отношения
to express an interest in better relations with smb — проявлять интерес к улучшению отношений с кем-л.
to foster good relations with a country — способствовать развитию хороших отношений с какой-л. страной
to have diplomatic relations — иметь / поддерживать дипломатические отношения
to heal the strained relations with a country — устранять напряженность в отношениях с какой-л. страной
to impose new strains on the government's relations with smb — еще больше осложнять отношения правительства с кем-л.
to institutionalize new relations — законодательно закреплять / узаконивать отношения
to introduce new strains in smb's relations with a country — делать еще более напряженными / еще больше усложнять чьи-л. отношения с какой-л. страной
to look forward to improved relations with... — надеяться на улучшение отношений с...
to make a plea for closer relations between smb — выступать с призывом упрочить отношения между кем-л.
to mar relations between two countries — портить / ухудшать отношения между двумя странами
to open diplomatic relations with... — устанавливать дипломатические отношения с...
to patch up one's relations — восстанавливать хорошие взаимоотношения
to pave the way for an improvement of relations between... — прокладывать путь к улучшению отношений между...
to place relations between two countries on a new footing — ставить отношения между двумя странами на новую основу
to place strain on relations between... — вносить напряженность в отношения между...
to plague relations — отравлять / омрачать / портить отношения
to poison relations — отравлять / омрачать / портить отношения
to put relations between two countries on a new footing — ставить отношения между двумя странами на новую основу
to reassess one's relations with a country — пересматривать свои отношения с какой-л. страной
to rebuild one's relations with smb — восстанавливать свои отношения с кем-л.
to recast / to reconsider one's relations with smb — пересматривать свои отношения с кем-л.
to reform one's relations with smb — перестраивать свои отношения с кем-л.
to reformulate one's relations with smb — пересматривать свои отношения с кем-л.
to render inconceivable any improvement in relations — делать немыслимым какое-л. улучшение отношений
to repair relations — улучшать / нормализовать отношения
to review one's relations with smb — пересматривать свои отношения с кем-л.
to seek better relations with... — добиваться улучшения отношений с...
to sour relations between two countries — портить / ухудшать отношения между двумя странами
to test the waters for the restoration of diplomatic relations — прощупывать почву относительно возможности восстановления дипломатических отношений
to warm (up) one's relations with smb — улучшать свои отношения с кем-л.
- acceleration of relationsto worsen relations between two countries — портить / ухудшать отношения между двумя странами
- aggravation relations
- agrarian relations
- amicable relations
- antagonistic relations
- balanced relations
- bilateral relations
- breach of relations
- break in relations
- breakdown in relations
- breakthrough in relations
- brotherly relations
- business relations
- capitalist relations
- causal relation
- cause-and-effect relations
- chill in relations
- chilly relations
- church-state relations
- church-to-state relations
- civilian-military relations
- clan relations
- close relations
- cold relations
- commercial relations
- commodity-money relations
- comprehensive improvement of relations
- constructive relations
- consular relations
- continuity in foreign relations
- cool relations
- cooling of relations
- cordial relations with smb
- credit and monetary relations
- credit relations
- crisis in relations
- cultural relations
- currency and credit relations
- demographic relations
- deteriorating relations
- deterioration in relations
- development of relations
- diplomatic relations
- direct diplomatic relations
- East-West relations
- economic relations
- equitable relations
- establishing of relations
- establishment of relations
- exemplary relations
- existing relations
- exploitative relations
- export-import relations
- external relations
- family and marital relations
- feudal-patriarchal social relations
- flourishing relations
- foreign economic relations
- foreign policy relations
- foreign relations
- formal relations
- fragile relations
- fraternal relations
- freeze in relations
- friendly relations
- frostiness in relations
- frosty relations
- good neighborhood relations
- good relations
- growing warmth in relations between the two countries
- harmonious relations
- healthy relations
- high level of relations between smb
- high point in relations
- human relations
- improved relations
- in spite of improved relations
- in the field of international relations
- industrial relations
- inequitable relations
- inter-American relations
- interethnic relations
- intergovernmental relations
- international cultural relations
- international legal relations
- international relations
- interparty relations
- interpersonal relations
- interruption of relations
- interstate relations
- kinship relations
- labor relations
- landmark in relations
- legal relations
- level of relations
- lukewarm relations
- lull of relations
- marital relations
- market relations
- matriarchal relations
- mature relations
- maturing of relations
- milestone in relations between smb
- monetary relations
- money relations
- moral relations
- multilateral relations
- mutual distrust in relations
- mutual relations
- mutually beneficial relations
- national relations
- need for further improved relations between the two countries
- neighborly relations
- new era in international relations
- new page in relations
- new relations
- new type of relations
- nonantagonistic relations
- normal relations
- normalization of relations
- obstacle to better relations
- official relations
- party-to-party relations
- patriarchal relations
- peaceful relations
- permanent diplomatic relations
- political relations
- positive assessments of relations
- power lever in relations
- precapitalist relations
- prevailing relations
- prickly relations
- private economic relations
- private property relations
- production relations
- progressive relations
- proper relations
- public relations
- race relations
- reestablisment of relations
- relation of forces
- relations among states
- relations are at a low ebb
- relations are at a very sensitive stage
- relations are at an impasse
- relations are at the lowest point
- relations are complicated
- relations are going perceptibly warmer by the day
- relations are overshadowed
- relations are seriously strained
- relations are severely strained
- relations are tense
- relations are troubled
- relations at the ambassadorial level
- relations between smb are taking a turn for the worse
- relations between the two countries were slightly downhill
- relations calm down
- relations came close to breaking point
- relations clouded by smth
- relations deteriorated
- relations have plunged to a new lowebb
- relations have soured to a new lowebb
- relations have taken a decided turn for the better
- relations have taken a step forward
- relations improve dramatically
- relations improve substantially
- relations move on to a new footing
- relations of friendship
- relations of peace, good-neighborliness and co-operation
- relations of production
- relations soured
- relations turned to ice
- relations warm up
- renewal of relations
- reopening of relations
- reordering of relations
- restoration of relations
- resumption of relations
- rift in relations
- rupture in relations
- severance of diplomatic relations
- sincere relations
- Sino-Russian relations
- social and legal relations
- social relations
- socialist relations
- socio-economic relations
- souring of relations
- special relations - state of relations
- state-to-state relations
- step back in relations
- strained relations
- straining in relations
- stumbling block to improving relations between...
- superpower relations
- tense relations
- tension-free relations
- thaw in relations
- trade and economic relations
- trade relations
- trading relations
- transition nature of relations
- treaty relations
- tribal relations
- turning point in relations
- uneasy relations
- unruffled relations
- warm relations
- warming of relations
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4 low
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1. ləu adjective1) (not at or reaching up to a great distance from the ground, sea-level etc: low hills; a low ceiling; This chair is too low for the child.) bajo2) (making little sound; not loud: She spoke in a low voice.) bajo3) (at the bottom of the range of musical sounds: That note is too low for a female voice.) bajo4) (small: a low price.) bajo5) (not strong; weak or feeble: The fire was very low.) bajo6) (near the bottom in grade, rank, class etc: low temperatures; the lower classes.) bajo
2. adverb(in or to a low position, manner or state: The ball flew low over the net.) bajo- lower- lowly
- lowliness
- low-down
- lowland
- lowlander
- lowlands
- low-lying
- low-tech
3. adjectivelow-tech industries/skills.) (de) baja tecnología- be low on
II ləu verb(to make the noise of cattle; to moo: The cows were lowing.) mugirlow adj1. bajo2. gravetr[ləʊ]1 (in general) bajo,-a; (neckline) escotado,-a2 (battery) gastado,-a3 (depressed) deprimido,-a, abatido,-a4 SMALLMUSIC/SMALL grave1 bajo1 (low level) punto bajo2 SMALLMETEOROLOGY/SMALL área de baja presión\SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALLto keep a low profile ser discreto,-alow comedy farsalow life bajos fondos nombre masculino pluralthe Low Countries los Países Bajos————————tr[ləʊ]1 (moo) mugirlow ['lo:] vi: mugirlow adv: bajo, profundoto aim low: apuntar bajoto lie low: mantenerse escondidoto turn the lights down low: bajar las luces1) : bajoa low building: un edificio bajoa low bow: una profunda reverencia2) soft: bajo, suavein a low voice: en voz baja3) shallow: bajo, poco profundo4) humble: humilde, modesto5) depressed: deprimido, bajo de moral6) inferior: bajo, inferior7) unfavorable: malto have a low opinion of him: tener un mal concepto de él8)to be low on : tener poco de, estar escaso delow n1) : punto m bajoto reach an all-time low: estar más bajo que nunca3) : mugido m (de una vaca)adj.• abatido, -a adj.• bajo, -a adj.• canallesco, -a adj.• deficiente adj.• grave adj.• hondo, -a adj.• humilde adj.• indigno, -a adj.• pequeño, -a adj.• rastrero, -a adj.• reducido, -a adj.adv.• bajo adv.n.• precio mínimo s.m.• punto bajo s.m.v.• berrear v.• mugir v.
I ləʊadjective -er, -est1) ( in height) bajoto fly at low altitude — volar* bajo or a poca altura
2)turn the radio down low — bájale al radio (AmL exc CS), baja la radio (CS, Esp)
b) ( in pitch) <key/note/pitch> grave, bajo3) (in intensity, amount, quality) <pressure/temperature> bajo; <wages/prices> bajo; < proportion> pequeño; <standard/quality> bajo, malo; <number/card> bajocook on a low flame o heat — cocinar a fuego lento
the temperature was in the low sixties — la temperatura apenas pasaba de 60° Fahrenheit
4) ( in short supply)supplies are low — los suministros escasean or están empezando a faltar
to be low ON something: we're rather low on milk — tenemos or nos queda poca leche
5) (in health, spirits)to feel low — ( physically) sentirse* débil; ( emotionally) estar* deprimido
to be in low spirits — estar* bajo de moral or con la moral baja
6)a) ( humble) (liter) bajo, humildeof low birth — de humilde cuna (liter)
b) ( despicable) bajo, mezquinoa low trick — una mala jugada, una mala pasada
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adverb -er, -est1) bajoto fly low — volar* bajo or a poca altura
to bow low — hacer* una profunda reverencia
I wouldn't sink o stoop so low as to do that — no me rebajaría a hacer una cosa así, nunca caería tan bajo
2)a) (softly, quietly) bajob) ( in pitch) bajo
III
a) ( low point) punto m más bajothe peso has dropped to a new (record) low against the dollar — la cotización del peso ha alcanzado un nuevo mínimo (histórico) con respecto al dólar
relations between the two countries are at an all-time low — las relaciones entre los dos países nunca han sido peores
b) ( Meteo) zona f de bajas presiones
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intransitive verb mugir*
I [lǝʊ]1. ADJ(compar lower) (superl lowest)on low ground — a nivel del mar, en tierras bajas
2) (=quiet) [voice, TV, radio] bajo3) (=low-pitched) [voice, musical note] grave, bajo4) [number] bajo; [price, income] reducido, bajo; [stock, supplies] escaso5) (in intensity) [light, rate, speed, temperature] bajo6) (=inferior) [standard, quality] inferior7) (=humble) [rank] humilde; [card] pequeño8) (Aut)in low gear — en primera or segunda
9) [health] débil, malo; [diet] deficienteto feel low, be low in spirits — sentirse deprimido, estar bajo de moral
10) [character, behaviour, opinion] malo; [comedian] grosero; [character] vil; [joke, song] verde; [trick] sucio, malo; tide2. ADV(compar lower) (superl lowest)1) [aim, fly, sing] bajo; [swing] bajo, cerca de la tierra•
to bow low — hacer una reverencia profunda•
a dress cut low in the back — un vestido muy escotado de espalda•
to fall low — (fig) caer bajo•
to be laid low with flu — ser postrado por la gripe•
to lay sb low — derribar a algn, poner a algn fuera de combate•
to sink low — (fig) caer bajo2) [quietly] [say, sing] bajo, en voz baja3)to turn the lights/the volume down low — bajar las luces/el volumen
4) (Cards)3. N1) (Met) área f de baja presión2) (Aut) primera or segunda (marcha) f3) (fig) (=low point) punto m más bajoall-timeto reach a new or an all-time low — estar más bajo que nunca
4.CPDlow beam headlights NPL — (US) luces fpl de cruce
Low Church N — sector de la Iglesia Anglicana de tendencia más protestante
low comedy N — farsa f
Low Latin N — bajo latín m
low season N — (esp Brit) temporada f baja
Low Sunday N — Domingo m de Cuasimodo
low water mark N — línea f de bajamar
II [lǝʊ]1.VI mugir2.N mugido m* * *
I [ləʊ]adjective -er, -est1) ( in height) bajoto fly at low altitude — volar* bajo or a poca altura
2)turn the radio down low — bájale al radio (AmL exc CS), baja la radio (CS, Esp)
b) ( in pitch) <key/note/pitch> grave, bajo3) (in intensity, amount, quality) <pressure/temperature> bajo; <wages/prices> bajo; < proportion> pequeño; <standard/quality> bajo, malo; <number/card> bajocook on a low flame o heat — cocinar a fuego lento
the temperature was in the low sixties — la temperatura apenas pasaba de 60° Fahrenheit
4) ( in short supply)supplies are low — los suministros escasean or están empezando a faltar
to be low ON something: we're rather low on milk — tenemos or nos queda poca leche
5) (in health, spirits)to feel low — ( physically) sentirse* débil; ( emotionally) estar* deprimido
to be in low spirits — estar* bajo de moral or con la moral baja
6)a) ( humble) (liter) bajo, humildeof low birth — de humilde cuna (liter)
b) ( despicable) bajo, mezquinoa low trick — una mala jugada, una mala pasada
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adverb -er, -est1) bajoto fly low — volar* bajo or a poca altura
to bow low — hacer* una profunda reverencia
I wouldn't sink o stoop so low as to do that — no me rebajaría a hacer una cosa así, nunca caería tan bajo
2)a) (softly, quietly) bajob) ( in pitch) bajo
III
a) ( low point) punto m más bajothe peso has dropped to a new (record) low against the dollar — la cotización del peso ha alcanzado un nuevo mínimo (histórico) con respecto al dólar
relations between the two countries are at an all-time low — las relaciones entre los dos países nunca han sido peores
b) ( Meteo) zona f de bajas presiones
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5 Language
Philosophy is written in that great book, the universe, which is always open, right before our eyes. But one cannot understand this book without first learning to understand the language and to know the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and the characters are triangles, circles, and other figures. Without these, one cannot understand a single word of it, and just wanders in a dark labyrinth. (Galileo, 1990, p. 232)It never happens that it [a nonhuman animal] arranges its speech in various ways in order to reply appropriately to everything that may be said in its presence, as even the lowest type of man can do. (Descartes, 1970a, p. 116)It is a very remarkable fact that there are none so depraved and stupid, without even excepting idiots, that they cannot arrange different words together, forming of them a statement by which they make known their thoughts; while, on the other hand, there is no other animal, however perfect and fortunately circumstanced it may be, which can do the same. (Descartes, 1967, p. 116)Human beings do not live in the object world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection. The fact of the matter is that the "real world" is to a large extent unconsciously built on the language habits of the group.... We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation. (Sapir, 1921, p. 75)It powerfully conditions all our thinking about social problems and processes.... No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same worlds with different labels attached. (Sapir, 1985, p. 162)[A list of language games, not meant to be exhaustive:]Giving orders, and obeying them- Describing the appearance of an object, or giving its measurements- Constructing an object from a description (a drawing)Reporting an eventSpeculating about an eventForming and testing a hypothesisPresenting the results of an experiment in tables and diagramsMaking up a story; and reading itPlay actingSinging catchesGuessing riddlesMaking a joke; and telling itSolving a problem in practical arithmeticTranslating from one language into anotherLANGUAGE Asking, thanking, cursing, greeting, and praying-. (Wittgenstein, 1953, Pt. I, No. 23, pp. 11 e-12 e)We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native languages.... The world is presented in a kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be organized by our minds-and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds.... No individual is free to describe nature with absolute impartiality but is constrained to certain modes of interpretation even while he thinks himself most free. (Whorf, 1956, pp. 153, 213-214)We dissect nature along the lines laid down by our native languages.The categories and types that we isolate from the world of phenomena we do not find there because they stare every observer in the face; on the contrary, the world is presented in a kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be organized by our minds-and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds.... We are thus introduced to a new principle of relativity, which holds that all observers are not led by the same physical evidence to the same picture of the universe, unless their linguistic backgrounds are similar or can in some way be calibrated. (Whorf, 1956, pp. 213-214)9) The Forms of a Person's Thoughts Are Controlled by Unperceived Patterns of His Own LanguageThe forms of a person's thoughts are controlled by inexorable laws of pattern of which he is unconscious. These patterns are the unperceived intricate systematizations of his own language-shown readily enough by a candid comparison and contrast with other languages, especially those of a different linguistic family. (Whorf, 1956, p. 252)It has come to be commonly held that many utterances which look like statements are either not intended at all, or only intended in part, to record or impart straightforward information about the facts.... Many traditional philosophical perplexities have arisen through a mistake-the mistake of taking as straightforward statements of fact utterances which are either (in interesting non-grammatical ways) nonsensical or else intended as something quite different. (Austin, 1962, pp. 2-3)In general, one might define a complex of semantic components connected by logical constants as a concept. The dictionary of a language is then a system of concepts in which a phonological form and certain syntactic and morphological characteristics are assigned to each concept. This system of concepts is structured by several types of relations. It is supplemented, furthermore, by redundancy or implicational rules..., representing general properties of the whole system of concepts.... At least a relevant part of these general rules is not bound to particular languages, but represents presumably universal structures of natural languages. They are not learned, but are rather a part of the human ability to acquire an arbitrary natural language. (Bierwisch, 1970, pp. 171-172)In studying the evolution of mind, we cannot guess to what extent there are physically possible alternatives to, say, transformational generative grammar, for an organism meeting certain other physical conditions characteristic of humans. Conceivably, there are none-or very few-in which case talk about evolution of the language capacity is beside the point. (Chomsky, 1972, p. 98)[It is] truth value rather than syntactic well-formedness that chiefly governs explicit verbal reinforcement by parents-which renders mildly paradoxical the fact that the usual product of such a training schedule is an adult whose speech is highly grammatical but not notably truthful. (R. O. Brown, 1973, p. 330)he conceptual base is responsible for formally representing the concepts underlying an utterance.... A given word in a language may or may not have one or more concepts underlying it.... On the sentential level, the utterances of a given language are encoded within a syntactic structure of that language. The basic construction of the sentential level is the sentence.The next highest level... is the conceptual level. We call the basic construction of this level the conceptualization. A conceptualization consists of concepts and certain relations among those concepts. We can consider that both levels exist at the same point in time and that for any unit on one level, some corresponding realizate exists on the other level. This realizate may be null or extremely complex.... Conceptualizations may relate to other conceptualizations by nesting or other specified relationships. (Schank, 1973, pp. 191-192)The mathematics of multi-dimensional interactive spaces and lattices, the projection of "computer behavior" on to possible models of cerebral functions, the theoretical and mechanical investigation of artificial intelligence, are producing a stream of sophisticated, often suggestive ideas.But it is, I believe, fair to say that nothing put forward until now in either theoretic design or mechanical mimicry comes even remotely in reach of the most rudimentary linguistic realities. (Steiner, 1975, p. 284)The step from the simple tool to the master tool, a tool to make tools (what we would now call a machine tool), seems to me indeed to parallel the final step to human language, which I call reconstitution. It expresses in a practical and social context the same understanding of hierarchy, and shows the same analysis by function as a basis for synthesis. (Bronowski, 1977, pp. 127-128)t is the language donn eґ in which we conduct our lives.... We have no other. And the danger is that formal linguistic models, in their loosely argued analogy with the axiomatic structure of the mathematical sciences, may block perception.... It is quite conceivable that, in language, continuous induction from simple, elemental units to more complex, realistic forms is not justified. The extent and formal "undecidability" of context-and every linguistic particle above the level of the phoneme is context-bound-may make it impossible, except in the most abstract, meta-linguistic sense, to pass from "pro-verbs," "kernals," or "deep deep structures" to actual speech. (Steiner, 1975, pp. 111-113)A higher-level formal language is an abstract machine. (Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 113)Jakobson sees metaphor and metonymy as the characteristic modes of binarily opposed polarities which between them underpin the two-fold process of selection and combination by which linguistic signs are formed.... Thus messages are constructed, as Saussure said, by a combination of a "horizontal" movement, which combines words together, and a "vertical" movement, which selects the particular words from the available inventory or "inner storehouse" of the language. The combinative (or syntagmatic) process manifests itself in contiguity (one word being placed next to another) and its mode is metonymic. The selective (or associative) process manifests itself in similarity (one word or concept being "like" another) and its mode is metaphoric. The "opposition" of metaphor and metonymy therefore may be said to represent in effect the essence of the total opposition between the synchronic mode of language (its immediate, coexistent, "vertical" relationships) and its diachronic mode (its sequential, successive, lineal progressive relationships). (Hawkes, 1977, pp. 77-78)It is striking that the layered structure that man has given to language constantly reappears in his analyses of nature. (Bronowski, 1977, p. 121)First, [an ideal intertheoretic reduction] provides us with a set of rules"correspondence rules" or "bridge laws," as the standard vernacular has it-which effect a mapping of the terms of the old theory (T o) onto a subset of the expressions of the new or reducing theory (T n). These rules guide the application of those selected expressions of T n in the following way: we are free to make singular applications of their correspondencerule doppelgangers in T o....Second, and equally important, a successful reduction ideally has the outcome that, under the term mapping effected by the correspondence rules, the central principles of T o (those of semantic and systematic importance) are mapped onto general sentences of T n that are theorems of Tn. (P. Churchland, 1979, p. 81)If non-linguistic factors must be included in grammar: beliefs, attitudes, etc. [this would] amount to a rejection of the initial idealization of language as an object of study. A priori such a move cannot be ruled out, but it must be empirically motivated. If it proves to be correct, I would conclude that language is a chaos that is not worth studying.... Note that the question is not whether beliefs or attitudes, and so on, play a role in linguistic behavior and linguistic judgments... [but rather] whether distinct cognitive structures can be identified, which interact in the real use of language and linguistic judgments, the grammatical system being one of these. (Chomsky, 1979, pp. 140, 152-153)23) Language Is Inevitably Influenced by Specific Contexts of Human InteractionLanguage cannot be studied in isolation from the investigation of "rationality." It cannot afford to neglect our everyday assumptions concerning the total behavior of a reasonable person.... An integrational linguistics must recognize that human beings inhabit a communicational space which is not neatly compartmentalized into language and nonlanguage.... It renounces in advance the possibility of setting up systems of forms and meanings which will "account for" a central core of linguistic behavior irrespective of the situation and communicational purposes involved. (Harris, 1981, p. 165)By innate [linguistic knowledge], Chomsky simply means "genetically programmed." He does not literally think that children are born with language in their heads ready to be spoken. He merely claims that a "blueprint is there, which is brought into use when the child reaches a certain point in her general development. With the help of this blueprint, she analyzes the language she hears around her more readily than she would if she were totally unprepared for the strange gabbling sounds which emerge from human mouths. (Aitchison, 1987, p. 31)Looking at ourselves from the computer viewpoint, we cannot avoid seeing that natural language is our most important "programming language." This means that a vast portion of our knowledge and activity is, for us, best communicated and understood in our natural language.... One could say that natural language was our first great original artifact and, since, as we increasingly realize, languages are machines, so natural language, with our brains to run it, was our primal invention of the universal computer. One could say this except for the sneaking suspicion that language isn't something we invented but something we became, not something we constructed but something in which we created, and recreated, ourselves. (Leiber, 1991, p. 8)Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Language
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