Metalingual (metalinguistic) function: the function of language that can be used to talk about language itself.
元语言功能，指语言可用来讨论语言本身的功能。
The phenomenon of how to use language to talk about language in daily communication has not attracted enough attention in the linguistics circle.
对于日常交际中如何用语言来谈论语言的现象还没有引起语言学界的足够重视。
Who do I talk to if I want to find out some more about the Maori language classes?
如果我想了解更多关于毛利语课程的信息，我应该找谁？
That is, language is abstract enough that we can talk about things that aren't present here and now.
也就是说，语言是足够抽象的，以至于我们所讲的东西可以是此时此刻并不在场的事物。
Once language starts to develop from about age 2, they do have a system for symbolic representation and can talk about things which aren't in their immediate environment including the past.
一旦语言从2岁左右开始发展，他们就有了一个符号表征系统，可以谈论过去和现在环境之外的事情。
When you talk about gorilla language, do you mean like, those experiments where humans taught them sign language?
当你讲到大猩猩的语言时，你指的是像人类教它们手语的那些实验吗？
And I want to talk briefly about each of these three parts of language before looking at some other issues.
在探讨一些其他问题之前,我想简单的讲一下语言的这三个成分
Second thing we want to talk about very briefly as we go along is the semantics of the language.
我们要说的第二点，是语言的语义。
You know you have a consistent architecture when you have a language to talk about the system from an architectural perspective 1.
当你拥有一门语言，并能够从架构的角度谈论系统时，你就拥有了一个一致的架构1。
Psychologists have talked about the importance of body language, physical appearance and clothing but they've not been so keen on what we actually talk about.
心理学家谈及身体语言，外表和着装的重要性，但是他们对我们实际上交谈了些什么却不那么热心。
This provides a much more focused goal and also provides a common language and context within which to talk about your interior security.
这就提供了一个更加集中的目标，以及公共的语言以及内容，使用它们可以讨论内部安全问题。
Given these similarities, it's not surprising that language would be similar when we talk about business and sports.
有这些相同点，谈论商业和运动的语言有很多相似处也就不足为奇了。
I particularly wanted to talk to him about Mathematica as a computer language. He always preferred user interfaces to languages, but he was trying to be helpful.
我特别想谈谈数学作为一种电脑语言，他的首选总是用户界面语言，但他是有尝试帮助的。
They talk about what technology to use for the POC, what Extensible Markup Language (XML) standards to use, what platforms to use, what ESB to use, and so on.
他们讨论这个POC要用什么技术、用什么样的扩展标记语言(XML)标准、使用什么平台、用什么ESB等等问题。
In this first installment, I'll talk about how real-world data can be used to inform and influence language evolution decisions.
在第一部分中，我将谈论实际数据如何用来告知并影响语言进化决策。
Language allows us to talk about abstract ideas such as happiness or love, about the past and the future, and to combine words to express an infinite variety of ideas.
我们利用语言能够表达抽象概念，比如幸福和爱情，过去和未来，通过组词造句能够表达无穷无尽的思想。
There are a lot of things that get inserted into the language, like the way that people talk about things and frame issues.
有很多其他东西注入进语言，如人们在谈论事情和框架问题时的方式。
Derrida is claiming that language is different in the sense that it makes no sense to talk about it as standing outside of what's going on.
德里达称语言是不同的，因为站在语言之外谈论发生了什么是没有意义的。
There's no language in the world that you just cannot talk about abstract things with.
世界上并不存在，无法谈论抽象概念的语言。
You can talk about the different accents / accents in a particular language to identify where people come from, e.g.
你可以谈论某种语言的不同accents /口音，以便于辨别讲话的是哪里人。
We have a different language now, compared with the 1950s, but most of us would still rather avoid a confrontation and hide our pain, decide to forgive our husbands and then not need to talk about it.
与50年代相比，我们现在的语言也不同的。不过，我们大多数人仍然更倾向于避免对抗，隐藏自己的痛苦，决定原谅自己的丈夫，然后觉得没有必要去谈论这种事。
Emojis themselves make up a language with frivolous meanings. When you talk with your boss about businesses, official work in particular, you should use clear and concise language instead.
表情符号会让语言显得不正式。和老板谈事情，尤其是谈工作时，你应该使用简洁准确的语言。
I find it interesting that the language barrier is not a problem for us when we talk about important tings like love and spirituality.
让我觉得有趣的是，当我们谈论一些重要的问题，比如爱和灵性时，语言障碍并不是问题。
Thee final aspect of international education I want to talk about is the centrality of language teaching in our highly interconnected world.
我要讲的有关国际教育的最后一个方面是，在我们这个高度互联的世界中，语言教学所处的中心地位。
So, we're going to talk about somebody's idea about racial prejudice, but that's not a theory of language acquisition.
我们会谈到某人所提出的，关于种族偏见的理论，但它却并不是语言获得的理论。
But we today are preoccupied with just the opposite, what really saturates our language. what we really seem to talk about is creation.
但是我们现今却关注于恰恰相反的事情，它渗透在我们的语言当中。
Metaphor is pervasive in everyday language and it is a fundamental cognitive ability that allows us to think and talk about abstract concepts and phenomena.
隐喻是日常语言中的一种普遍现象，它是人类的一项基本认知能力。人们常常通过隐喻来讨论、思考和认识一些抽象的概念和现象。
To be able to talk about all daily activities as well as academic subjects. To achieve the language ability of a near native speaker.
语言以达到一般外国人的水平，不仅日常用语表达自如，且能够进行复杂的学术性探讨。
To be able to talk about all daily activities as well as academic subjects. To achieve the language ability of a near native speaker.
语言以达到一般外国人的水平，不仅日常用语表达自如，且能够进行复杂的学术性探讨。
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