The award jury praised Mayer's fearlessness and unconstrained approach: "It was the work of Ursula Mayer that came closest to touching on the language that Derek Jarman himself so often strived for".
In his three-minute speech today, Mr. Corzine touched on familiar issues but without the liberal language that characterized his primary campaign.
The subjects, touched on in a libretto by Deborah Artman, include everything from extinct species and languages to abandoned technologies and lost rituals.
Previous studies have touched on this topic.
Much of our writing in The Economist, including our blogs, touches on language one way or another.
The pianist Lisa Moore's commission was a set of Seven Études by Don Byron, who moved easily between languages, touching on blues and jazz figures, dense atonal harmonies and complex polyrhythms, posing technical challenges that Ms. Moore met confidently.
They can use body language and verbal language, but no touching one another in any way.
"We also understand that the full study and exploration of any language necessarily includes references to the rich cultural heritage inextricably tied to that language, including elements touching on religion".
Look a little more closely, however, and you will see an intricately interconnected conversation, touching on topics as diverse as the languages of India, MTV and melanoma treatments.
The paper describing the researchers' work (primarily on efficient multi-language translation but touching on the mysterious interlingua) can be read at Arxiv.
