While the military hawks press for strategic advantage, Louise finds her world reordered by alien semantics ("Are you dreaming in their language?'), notions of joy and grief refracted through the prism of a linguistic stargate.
Q: Turning to the issue of global spread of the English language, notions such as English as a Lingua Franca (ELF) (Jenkins 2000, 2003 ; Seidlhofer 2001 ), English as an International Language (EIL) (McKay 2002 ; Sharifian 2009 ; Smith 1983 ), World Englishes (WEs) (Kachru 1985 , 1986 2003 ; Kachru & Nelson 1996 ) and English as a Global Language (Crystal 2003 ) have been met with mixed reactions.
Unfortunately, the educational theorists who pushed the whole-language notion so successfully did not wait for evidence from controlled randomised trials before advancing their claims.
DAVID REMNICK: To use the language or notion of "concentration camps" where Israel is concerned is unspeakable.
The idea that there was something separate called "literary language", the notion that there was something independent of language called "life", to which an unequivocal meaning could be ascribed – all of these assumptions were not only being challenged by a vulgarised version of theory, but revealed to be (like market shares after a crash) a useless form of currency.
Here the truth-predicate is formulated in the very same language whose notion of truth is being defined: ESO.
In ordinary language, the notion is broad, but it is understood even more broadly in ethical theory to include effectively all forms of action intended to benefit or promote the good of other persons.
Using the Tarskian apparatus, one defines for the formulae of the Fregean language the notion of truth in (or satisfaction by) a set-theoretic structure (with respect to an infinite sequence assigning an object of the domain to each variable).
They are constructed not from fleshly materials but from embroidered scraps of language, poetic notions, allegorical conceits.
Both characters serve as empty vessels for Mr. McCarthy's language and notions, but Mr. Jackson gets the better end of the bargain as Black, whose colloquial attempts to assert the value of faith and keep White from heading back to the subway allow for the display of considerably more humor and energy.
