descriptive approach

It is known for its historical scholarship, analysis, use of examples, and descriptive approach.

A descriptive approach, by itself, is more appropriate to the field of anthropology and applies different standards to African thought.

Despite its descriptive approach, it gives us useful information on this situation and the need to address inequalities.

One, the descriptive approach, attributes cause only when it has been empirically demonstrated.

This is a purely descriptive approach to what we mean by "natural language" without attempting to address its emergence.

The aim of the subject is to adopt a descriptive approach to the religious heritage of Quebec.

A descriptive approach to language: language form and language function: their interdependence.

For example, as part of the general assessment, the agency is encouraging a more descriptive approach to characterizing a substance's cancer-causing potential.

In academia descriptive approaches are also taken.

Language death and language maintenance: Theoretical, practical and descriptive approaches.

A descriptive approach, which takes account of the overall social system and its mechanisms of legitimation, was chosen.

This fact alone suggests that a purely descriptive approach to first degree courses is likely to be unproductive or excruciatingly boring.

Numerous different classification schemes and diagnostic terms were developed by different authorities, taking an increasingly anatomical-clinical descriptive approach.

Mr. Chanda has a lively mind, and he writes with a bright pen, but his descriptive approach has its drawbacks.

Deconstruction-and-religion operates passively when it takes a historical, descriptive approach to analyzing the corpora of various traditions of theology.

The descriptive approach is comparative, applying several different theoretical frameworks developed by intercultural researchers over the last half century to deal with an infinitely complex field.

Theoretical, Practical and Descriptive Approaches.

For the descriptive approach carries hidden messages of the impossibility of any fair evaluation, for all such beliefs are subjective and relative to particular cultures.

In a indirect, more kindly manner (as Amis points out) than merely baldly stating in a more typically descriptive approach.

Snorri took a prescriptive as well as descriptive approach; he has systematized the material, and often notes that "the older poets didn't always" follow his rules.

The 1,698 page book differs from earlier grammars by taking a descriptive approach and describing colloquial Finnish in addition to standard literary Finnish.

Most prefer to take a descriptive approach, using these terms to convey the nature of their relationships to others but not to decide the nature of those relationships.

Using a descriptive approach biologists attempt to fit a mathematical model to real data sets and infer the underlying biological principles at work from the model parameters.

The descriptive approach is based on what discount rates are observed in the behaviour of people making every day decisions (the private discount rate) (IPCC, 2007c:813).

There are growing signs of a desire to abandon the descriptive approach to this material and to examine unknown fields rather than continuing to prove by alternative means what is already known.