The director, Hou Hsiao-hsien, builds his film around a single focal episode the killing, in 1947, by the ruling Nationalists, of tens of thousands of their political opponents through the story of Wen-ching (Tony Leung), a deaf-mute portrait photographer, whose silent lucidity is an ironic critique of the post-liberation linguistic wars that mirrored Taiwan's civil conflict.
Chomsky has fought many battles over the years, political and linguistic, but perhaps the most ferocious was the fight in the late sixties and early seventies that became known as the linguistics wars.
If politics is war by other means, linguistic politics is war by yet other means again.
Desert Storm (that name oddly redolent of Mills & Boon) gave currency to: "mother of all battles", "line in the sand", "surgical strike", "collateral damage" and, as its sad linguistic legacy, "Gulf war syndrome".
This book breaks chains; it is as robust, and yet also as intricate, a staging of the linguistic and psychosocial civil wars of the mind/body complex as we have seen in some time.
Determined to teach himself, he kept reading -- Greek history, British history, Congolese history -- and as we hiked through the Pygmy forest or drove to Vita's headquarters, he talked of Che Guevara's revolutionary venture in Congo, of the linguistic influences of Britain's wars against France, of the Latin origins of the word "militia".
But to a typical American, not steeped in the linguistic battles of the abortion wars, it was Obama who sounded reasonable and McCain who seemed uncaring and extreme.
According to Deutscher, this profoundly affected "the development of at least three academic disciplines" and triggered a war over the linguistic link between culture and nature that, 150 years on, is still being fought.
It takes the linguistic form of conventional expressions including war, combat, fight, and victory, as illustrated in (14)—(17), whereby the word war shows the highest degree of token entrenchment.
Montalvo and Reynal-Querol (2005) and Esteban et al. (2012) found that countries characterized by linguistic polarization are more prone to civil wars whereas Wimmer et al. (2009) found that participation in civil wars was more likely in countries linguistically fragmented.
Journey to the End of the Night Louis-Ferdinand Celine The experiences of an unattractive slum doctor during the Great War: a masterpiece of linguistic innovation.
