In this long, twilight struggle between linguistic formalism and our national experience, Noel Canning is a partial, maybe even a Pyrrhic, victory for the latter.
It's ironic that when I meet Eddie Izzard to talk to him about his linguistic skills, he is struggling to string a sentence together.
I've had many contentions with my linguistic lexicon, and have struggled with my verbal manifestations of language.
The digital era has brought setbacks as well as opportunities in the struggle to keep linguistic diversity intact.
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.
Angel Face's linguistic intensity often reflects his inner moral struggle: 'An animal makes no mistake in its sexual reckonings,' he thought.
And yet the body doesn't struggle in the midst of this linguistic matrix, it succumbs; indeed, this is a book to whose beguiling delights one invariably must succumb.
For Bakhtin, language is always a site of social struggle; it is not a neutral linguistic resource, but is "already 'overpopulated' with other people's voices and the social practices and contexts they invoke" [ 39].
Then along comes hip-hop, with its linguistic virtuosity and rhythmic velocity, all connected to the struggle for freedom".
The language he creates in its place blends the black vernacular with puns, patois, and linguistic borrowings that most readers (this one included) will struggle to identify.
