Her English was small and her story was vast and bewildering, straining the confines of any language.
The Russians, that is, were not merely repressive by choice, but trapped within the confines of their language incapable of imagining an alternative... Of course, there is a word for freedom: svoboda..
Sometimes, the confines of the English language, spacious as it is, just can't do a moment justice.
By Ian Crouch October 19, 2013 Sometimes, the confines of the English language, spacious as it is, just can't do a moment justice.
Discourse-based research of the textual features has been confined to language learning and workplace contexts, and in particular advertising and marketing research.
Such futurists all have in common the recognition that human possibilities and creativity are limited when confined to the cognitive domains of language and analysis.
Bloomfieldians, he said, who had imagined themselves to be bringing scientific rigor to what had previously been a subject for the humanities, were not scientific at all: the point of science was to explain the world, and Bloomfieldians, by confining themselves to the surface ephemera of language, were merely describing it.
Using the occasional cliché isn't a mortal sin; still, in the demanding confines of the short story, generic language stands out.
At the same time, it only works as a symbol of resistance within the confines of popular culture because the language of and desire for dissent is already present.
