Any assessment or understanding of impact, result and relation can at best only be surmised, using archaeological, linguistic or other reconstructive means.

But his fictional world defies common sense, and frustrates any attempt to separate linguistic means from fictional ends.

Paleolinguistics is a term used by some linguists for the study of the distant human past by linguistic means.

During the early stages of acquisition, children establish an interactional matrix for language learning, and then slowly learn to utilize linguistic means for promoting interaction.

Some cultures for example have elaborate systems of "social deixis", systems of signalling social distance through linguistic means.

The theory treats on equal footing the humorous effect created by the linguistic means (verbal humor), as well as created visually (caricature, clown performance) or by tickling.

They found this conception too optimistic and accepted that not all schoolchildren possess the linguistic means to cope with their present communicative needs.

Despite the adage about music being a universal language, musicians and the people who work with them usually find it necessary to communicate by standard linguistic means.

Thereby, she found the linguistic means of making this development available to succeeding generations.

Some of the linguistic means whereby Golding shows the contrasts between the minds of his characters and ours are explored below.