It is possible to engage in higher academic studies in many areas, from the traditional spheres of natural science, language and theology to more vocational academic areas like engineering and dentistry.
The Hurrian tradition remained strong in the military and political sphere while at the same time influencing the vocabulary of language.
A common objection is that even so, all people must know which forms of language are acceptable in the public sphere, at the peril of unemployability or, at least, social handicap.
In a superlative run of clichés – "gone with the wind", "one with Nineveh", "in a word" – Wodehouse revels in, and revives, the contained sphere of an exhausted language (a "small world" of its own) and makes it a little larger.
Within the sphere of a given language, however, it is also possible that the community of researchers and clinicians interested in the topic may be very small and well covered by the publishing journal.
Now Nunberg is back with a new book, written about the use of language in recent days, both in the political sphere and in everyday life.
The ancient but persistent recognition of the power of language is apparent in the respect for correctness in the use of language in any sphere of life having supernatural connections.
Although other languages are allowed in the private domain, there are regular attempts by zealous mayors to extend the language laws to other spheres of life.
It belongs to all those spheres that are "not nature": its home is not the earth but the disembodied realms of art, history, culture, society, the mind, the imaginary, the symbolic sign-systems of language and text.
The debate thus raises an issue that, as philosopher of language, I have spent time considering: the impact of how words and terms are defined in the public sphere.
Sharing outside of language.
