The Black conversion to Christianity and Islam in America was due to its influential language of freedom and its stance on social justice.
Intellectually and ethically, the most blatant gap was between the protesters dehumanizing language of "Japanese pigs" and their own stance against "right-wing textbooks" in Japan.
Geithner, we must assume, was using the language of diplomacy only because his official stance is that co-operation is the best way forward for everyone.
Shostakovich's deadly game with Stalin comes to mind and how he used the abstract language of music to take his own stance and give great succour to his fellow countrymen.
Mr. Obama instead cloaked his tough stance in the language of compromise, saying he was "familiar with all the literature about presidential overreach in second terms," and that his re-election was not a mandate to ram his proposals through Congress without any concessions.
But Ms. Peláez (who might have stepped out of one of the Dove soap ads featuring real-life women) acts these characters beautifully, from the slumped body language of her grandmother to the defiant stance of a prostitute who was sent out to work by her own mother when she was 12.
We do this by tracking qualitative changes in the language he produces, we provide linguistic evidence of how a teacher develops a critical language awareness stance, which is ultimately used in classroom teacher talk.
She sees frightening parallels between Israel's stance today and the language of apartheid in South Africa, where she spent her childhood.
He told McCaffery, "Look, man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that does nothing but dramatize how dark and stupid everything is?" So Wallace's project required him to invent a language and a stance of his own.
10 Be confident: use your face, body language and stance to own the stage.
