Michael Almereyda, in his updating of "Hamlet," from 2000, compresses the text while thinking in highly inflected images that seem to frame the language as much as the action and guiding his actors to an ear-catchingly provocative fusion of common speech and poetic grandeur.
Your words and your body language as well as your actions and decisions will reveal that you are not what you present yourself to be and people will be more and more reluctant to trust you as a leader.
Every group has implicit rules against certain opinions, actions and language as well as enforcement mechanisms — and the patriotically correct are no exception.
Ancient debates address questions that today we associate with epistemology and philosophy of language, as well as with theory of action, rather than specifically with the contemporary topic of skepticism.
Discrimination An external representation of prejudice which is reflected in disrespectful language as well as unjust behaviour and actions towards a person, group or community.
Our results shed light on inter-related brain functions and the neural bases of language as social action, as well as highlighting the importance of the interactive nature of communication between individual brains.
Among his books are: Counter-Statement (1931; rev. ed., 1968); The Philosophy of Literary Form (1941; 3rd ed., 1974); Permanence and Change: An Anatomy of Purpose (1935; rev. ed., 1959); Attitudes Toward History, 2 vol. (1937; rev. ed., 1959); A Grammar of Motives (1945); A Rhetoric of Motives (1950); and Language as Symbolic Action (1966).
It's fine to say "I am angry about …" But once you raise your voice, or repeat yourself endlessly, talk over someone or swear, you're using language as an action, not for communication.
Previous research draws attention to styling processes in advertising language, as discursive actions indexing social meanings.
