Amrhein et al. (2003) found that the nature of client speech at the end of sessions was predictive of later drug use outcomes, whereas commitment language earlier in the process had no relationship to later outcomes.
They should be able to ask open ended questions, listen reflectively, affirm, summarize and elicit and recognize change talk (i.e., disadvantages of the status quo, advantages of change, optimism for change or intention to change; desire, ability and reasons for change statements, and commitment language).
Finally, don?t forget other factors such as geographical mobility, family commitments, language skills, and the labour market itself.
In an unusually effective show at Sean Kelly, Joseph Kosuth, a founder of Conceptual Art, mixes old, new and recent pieces while confirming that his unstinting commitment to language as his primary material has served him well for more than 40 years.
That has the benefit, as with the entailment account, of freeing the notion of ontological commitment from language (see §2.1).
That said, Wooga's continued growth is, like so many European startups, in-part attributed to its "commitment to language localization" (currently Spanish, Brazilian, Portuguese, French, Turkish, German, Italian and English).
We could relativize the notion of ontological commitment to languages; but given that reality itself, for Hirsch, isn't ontologically structured, none of these relativized notions of ontological commitment would be getting at something of ontological significance (including the one that gave ontological commitment relative to ordinary language, and ordinary language quantifiers).
They interpret this crosslinguistic difference as follows: languages which have the grammatical means to express an aspectual difference via alternative forms the progressive vs. simple forms in English enforce immediate aspectual commitment, whereas languages that lack this grammatical feature have to leave it underspecified.
And in his commitment to common language, the language of normal discourse, he was following an American tradition established by Robert Frost and, before Frost, by William Carlos Williams, the poet of inarticulate America - a poet who distrusted articulacy.
While commitments to language-related work for intelligence purposes might increase, they will not come close to the cost of sending live interpreters into combat zones where they help soldiers communicate.
The project of applying ontological commitment to ordinary language theories, then, is none too easy: it depends upon being able to demarcate language that is literal from language that is partly figurative; and it depends on there being a stripped-down core of ordinary language that, when interpreted literally, has the representational capacity for fully describing the world.
