(In the longer essay, he explains how the coverage of royal weddings, sensational crimes, jet pilots, and famous writers photographed "on vacation," set alongside advertisements for cleaning products and food, constituted a language with rules as codified as those of the classical French theatre he'd studied).
In the 1950s American linguist Noam Chomsky forcefully argued that, although children pick up the language and dialect they hear spoken around them, they must do so on the basis of prior grammatical knowledge, constituting a "language acquisition device" that they are presumably born with.
If the elements that constitute a language are complicated, the language will take too long to write and will be more difficult to remember.
The section on language, for example, makes the claim ("the English language is struggling for survival in this country") that Jamaican patwa - the syncretic adaptation of African, Spanish, French, Hindi, Arawak words or grammatical constructions - somehow constitutes a new language.
This is a way of talking so different from either Warlpiri or Kriol that it constitutes a new language.
Underlying Klein's observations was the idea that if the world is a global village, then the corporate logo (Nike, Walmart, or Starbucks) constitutes a universal language understood by – though not accessible to – everyone.
But regulating the language of chalking would constitute a "speech code," Mr. Bennet said in an e-mail message to students.
Each word has a specific definition in medicine, and together these words constitute a new language through which to speak to clinicians clearly and professionally.
For NGOs where grassroots organizing constitutes a central task, language skills, including knowledge of indigenous dialects, may prove critical to working successfully with a particular community.
