Another major influence is René Descartes whose concern with the creative powers of the mind leads him to regard human language as an instrument of thought.

Hume regarded most religious language as unverifiable by experiment and so dismissed it.

Wisse regards language as not only a sign but also an agent, of community, exile and dispersion; assimilation and return.

They regarded language as their private ball game.

A particularly important division is between those who regard sexist language as a symptom and those who regard it as a cause.

Meanwhile I regard positive language as akin to positive discrimination: it is a stopgap measure, a necessary stage on the long historic journey toward liberation and justice.

It regards religious language as negotiating mystery, acknowledging that no story, doctrine or culture can adequately encompass the divine.

For scholars who regard language as a shared social practice, idiolect is more like a dialect with a speech community of one individual.

This indicates that non-Tatars also regard language as an important ethnic marker of the Tatar community.

The difference (regarding written language) is subtle.