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).
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).
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 relation between a vocabulary and a conceptualization is the ontological commitment of a language: the ontological commitment assigns a category from the conceptualization to each term in a vocabulary.
I'm in favor of documenting those commitments in simple language.
Sider (1999), for example, suggests that the project of discovering the ontological commitments of ordinary language should proceed by searching, not for paraphrases, but for underlying truths (see also Melia 1995 and Yablo 1999 for related critiques).
I would hope that the debt commitment letters have language to the effect of "[Bank] acknowledges that this commitment letter contains all of the material terms of the credit facility and cannot dispute its enforceability in a court of law on grounds of incompleteness or openness of terms.
