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  2. Pure speech - Wikipedia

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    Pure speech in United States law is the communication of ideas through spoken or written words or through conduct limited in form to that necessary to convey the idea. It is distinguished from symbolic speech , which involves conveying an idea or message through behavior.

  3. Linguistic purism - Wikipedia

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    Examples: German, Czech and Yiddish. Stable, consistent purism: No interruption or fluctuation in intensity is seen. Purism is a constant value-feature of the speech community. Examples: Arabic, Tamil and Icelandic. Revolutionary purism: An abrupt change from the previously mentioned patterns to another. Examples: Turkish.

  4. Symbolic speech - Wikipedia

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    Symbolic speech is distinguished from pure speech, which is the communication of ideas through spoken or written words or through conduct limited in form to that necessary to convey the idea. While First Amendment protections originally only applied to laws passed by Congress, these protections on symbolic speech have also applied to state ...

  5. Speech - Wikipedia

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    Speech is the subject of study for linguistics, cognitive science, communication studies, psychology, computer science, speech pathology, otolaryngology, and acoustics. Speech compares with written language, [1] which may differ in its vocabulary, syntax, and phonetics from the spoken language, a situation called diglossia.

  6. Linguistic purism in English - Wikipedia

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    English words gave way to borrowings from Anglo-Norman following the Norman Conquest as English lost ground as a language of prestige. Anglo-Norman was used in schools and dominated literature, nobility and higher life, leading a wealth of French loanwords to enter English over the course of several centuries—English only returned to courts of law in 1362, and to government in the following ...

  7. Hate crime or free speech? Pro-Palestine protesters say they ...

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    The flyer provided examples of speech that are offensive but generally not a crime, such as using racial slurs, accusing someone of trespassing because of their race, or telling someone to go back ...

  8. What exactly did Harrison Butker say in his controversial ...

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    Read a full transcript of Harrison Butker's commencement speech and highlights of a few of the most controversial comments.

  9. Vowel - Wikipedia

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    There are two complementary definitions of vowel, one phonetic and the other phonological.. In the phonetic definition, a vowel is a sound, such as the English "ah" / ɑː / or "oh" / oʊ /, produced with an open vocal tract; it is median (the air escapes along the middle of the tongue), oral (at least some of the airflow must escape through the mouth), frictionless and continuant. [4]