言

linguistic aspects of life; linguistic behaviour

December kabuki performance at Kyoto's Minamiza Theater in which all famous actors perform

performance of an entire play

doing as one is told; yes-man

Linguistics

corpus; linguistic data; text corpus

every word and act; just a word or an act

idiom; set phrase; habit of speech; saying

to insult someone behind their back

person who is ready to comment on every subject; ready critic

official warning (esp. of an impending earthquake)

farce; burlesque; low comedy

artificial language (e.g. Esperanto); constructed language; conlang

Computing

language for defining structures, logic, etc. (e.g. XML, HTML, etc.)

silence

faith in the power of language; belief that reality is affected by the spoken word; speaking of a lucky (or unlucky) event will bring it about

peace declaration

halting English; broken English

to say by mistake; to make a slip of the tongue

to argue down; to confute

kabuki play; kabuki drama

kabuki script

buzzword; popular expression; vogue word or phrase

Computing

variable declaration

worth mentioning

language education

written language; literary language