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 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).
A change in language learning is overdue: It is time to renew our commitment to language study across the board, but especially for these underrepresented languages that too many of our college students haven't even heard of.
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).
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.
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.
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.
Children are thought to develop a neural commitment to their native language (L1) such that when acquiring a second language later in life, their L1 phonetic categories interfere with their production and perception of non-native target sounds (see, e.g., Iverson et al., 2003).
"But to me that's not what commitment to the Welsh language is fundamentally about, it's about utilising the language out in our communities as something that's living not something that's on a bit of paper".
The movement is well known for running a network of schools lauded for their academic rigor and commitment to spreading Turkish language and culture.
The movement, led by Fetullah Gulen, a Turkish religious leader living in self-imposed exile in rural Pennsylvania, supports scores of charter schools that have gained a reputation for academic achievement and a commitment to spreading Turkish language and culture.
