Jung-Beeman argues that these linguistic skills, like insight, require the brain to make a set of distant and unprecedented connections.
The academy cited Mr. Gao for his "bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity" in his writings about the struggle for individuality in mass culture, including the lyrical novel "Soul Mountain," based on his 10-month walking tour in China's countryside.
In making the award to the 60-year-old Mr. Gao, who lives outside Paris, the academy said he had produced "an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity, which has opened new paths for the Chinese novel and drama".
January 4, 1940 Ganzhou, China Gao Xingjian, Wade-Giles romanization Kao Hsing-chien (born January 4, 1940, Ganzhou, Jiangxi province, China), Chinese émigré novelist, playwright, and critic who in 2000 was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature "for an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity".
In Steedman 1995 (and 2000, listed in the Other Internet Resources Section), these important questions are addressed, and a theory is developed that extends action formalisms like the Situation Calculus, and that incorporates many of the insights from linguistic semantics.
The Tony judges, recognising the marital invective as dramatic dialogue of high linguistic invention and psychological insight, look more sensible today, where Albee's play stands as a modern American classic.
His linguistic family tree provided insight into the natural kinship history of these "natural beings".
The linguistic rendering of this insight is the problem of negative existentials: 'Atlantis does not exist' is about Atlantis.
