unintelligibility

Due to the unintelligibility of vocabulary, some patients use nods or non-verbal communication.

Many supporters of experimental natural philosophy, including Locke, were either skeptical or extremely cautious of broad generalizations, perhaps as an overreaction to the "unintelligibility" of those posited by speculative philosophers.

I explained that early in his career Laing had characterized such an inconsistent and contradictory manner of relating as being central to the supposed unintelligibility of 'schizophrenia' and its diagnosis.

Nearly every poem is composed of three six-line stanzas, rhyming frequently but not always, with the syntax often fractured and the sense sometimes hovering near unintelligibility or plunging right into chaos.

The overwhelming unintelligibility at first reading this poem has caused critics such as Jonathan Culler to remark on its "driving amoral sonic energy" (p.

Ever since Jenkins (2000) observed that pronunciation was a regular cause of misunderstandings and unintelligibility among non-native speakers of English, and proposed the Lingua Franca Core (LFC), recurrent research in the field has dealt with the relationship between phonology and intelligibility in ELF communication (e.g.

Eliot addressed "the vexed question of obscurity and unintelligibility," identifying "several reasons" for difficulty in poetry that range from "personal causes which make it impossible for a poet to express himself in any but an obscure way" and "novelty," to the nature of readers' expectations and the "difficulty caused by the author's having left out something which reader is used to finding" (689).

This unintelligibility is not confined to mental causation.

Wright Mills wrote, "Desire for status is one reason why academic men slip so readily into unintelligibility. And that, in turn, is one reason why they do not have the status they desire" (pp.

The main criterion for choosing a conversation recorded through a listening device is to highlight the potential unintelligibility and incoherence that confront the transcriber, and discuss the relevance or otherwise of incorporating prosodic and paralinguistic information among the features of intelligible speech.

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner's somewhat awkward reception initially put Coleridge into a difficulty of how to defend its lack of logic and unintelligibility of events.