This means that no theory of language use and language understanding can make a list of sentences.

这也就意味着，任何语言使用和语言理解的理论都无法列出一份句子的清单。

youdao

youdao

That's having too much faith in what a general theory of language or discourse can do for you.

那样做就是过分相信一种语言或者话语的一般理论能为你做什么。

youdao

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

And what this means is that any theory of language use and language comprehension cannot simply appeal to a list.

这也就意味着,任何语言使用和语言理解的理论,都无法列出一份句子的清单

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Thomas Hobbes was the author of the first and, I believe, undoubtedly the greatest, work of political theory written in the English language.

托马斯·霍布斯是第一部，我相信，毫无疑问也是最伟大的一部，用英语写成的,政治学著作的作者。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Mr Quine developed a theory of language according to which truths of fact blend into truths of meaning, so that there is no absolute distinction between the two.

ECONOMIST: Willard Quine

"Silbo is interesting from the point of view of the theory of language because, since it is a very simple system, it can help us understand how languages in general are formed, " he says.

BBC: Silbo gomero: A whistling language revived

Neither Sapir nor Whorf formulated a definitive version of the hypothesis that bears their names, but in general the theory argues that the language we speak actually shapes our experience of reality.

NEWYORKER: Utopian for Beginners