In times of political crisis, we routinely deplore the lack of speakers competent to function in the critical languages of the moment.
This lack of foreign language training (long an American Achilles heel frequently noted by my Swiss and French compadres) means the U.S. State Department is experiencing a lack of trained linguists in the mission critical languages of Korean, Russian, Chinese, Turk, and Dari.
But the habit of thinking of Brakhage as a poet also demonstrates the failure of our critical language to articulate what our eyes take in, a failure that is the condition of our appreciation of Brakhage's eternally strange and fascinating films.
After this principal research trend change, there were some elaborate studies on topics such as theories of validity, impact, ethics, principles of critical language testing (Shohamy 2001), policy and social considerations (McNamara 2006), and fairness (Kunnan 2004).
The Saleema Communication Initiative grew out of the recognition of a critical language gap in Sudanese colloquial Arabic: despite great strides made over 30+ years of activism to increase awareness of the harm caused by FGM/C, there was still no positive term in common usage to refer to an uncircumcised woman / girl.
Deep and daring, Rylance's performance defied the tropes of critical language.
Rylance's deep and daring performance, which he premièred in London, in 2009, defies the tropes of critical language.
Using dense clots of critical language and references to Proust and Gombrowicz, Tiqqun took a bouncing, prismatic looks at the concept of the "Young-Girl" as she is seen in advertising.
Zeid, the UN rights chief, had been expected to include critical language around the lack of progress made by the Yemeni body during a 10 March speech but instead said that he expected an update on their work in June.
