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1. "... hostile world-unless it is employed by poetry, which alone tries to beat language at its own game and thus to bring it as close as possible to real cognizance."

Source:   RIGGAN, WILLIAM. "Czeslaw Milosz: Silence . . . Memory . . . Contemplation . . . Praise" World Literature Today 73.4 Sept. 22 1999: 617 Google This

2. " In this sense, a dominant discourse delimits the 'possible', attempting to steer thought and action in a particular direction congruent with that discourse. [2] A second, narrower, sense of discourse refers to language in a more traditional..."

Source:   Atkinson, Rob. "Discourses of Partnership and Empowerment in Contemporary British Urban Regeneration" Urban Studies 36.1 Jan. 1 1999: 59 Google This

3. " As part of a study of possible effects of early life otitis media on children's development, we attempted to determine whether levels of language and..."

Source:   . "PeDIATRICS electronic pages" Pediatrics 104.4 Oct. 1 1999: 951 Google This

4. " In order to describe the structure of the universe according to the Hopi, it is necessary to attempt -- insofar as it is possible -- to make explicit this metaphysics, properly describable only in the Hopi language, by means of..."

Source:   . "FIFTY YEARS AGO IN ETC" ETC.: A Review of General Semantics 57.1 Mar. 22 2000: 120 Google This

5. "... the other, an attempt to analyze the mechanics of social work language, to show how what is said to be in clients' interests, in their language, is really in social work's interests, in social work language" (p. xiii)."

Source:   Achenbaum, W. Andrew. "Under the Cover of Kindness: The Invention of Social Work" Journal of Social History 32.4 June 22 1999: 957-960 Google This

6. " For example, assume that the central bank attempts to lower equity prices through a "high" real interest rate made possible by money destruction."

Source:   Hetzel, Robert L. "How do central banks control inflation?" Economic Quarterly 90.3 June 22 2004: 47-64 Google This

7. " Representation from Above really captivated me. It is written in plain language, the authors are never on a high horse, and the analyses are parsimonious and as simple as possible."

Source:   Thomassen, Jacques. "Representation from Above: Members of Parliament andRepresentative Democracy in Sweden" American Political Science Review v92.n2 June 1 1998: 481-483 Google This

8. " It is now accepted that it is possible to write the history of ordinary people; indeed, no presentation of the past is real without such an attempt."

Source:   Pettegree, Andrew. "REFORMATION EUROPE RE-FORMED" History Today 49.12 Dec. 1 1999: 10 Google This

9. " This raises the question of whether writing such an omnibus guide to science is really possible, especially if it is attempted by one individual, with his or her inevitable limitations."

Source:   BERNSTEIN, JEREMY. "Did Nike Say to `Just Do It" American Scholar 69.1 Jan. 1 2000: 149 Google This

10. " Law A real-life example of another possible opportunity for open source comes from Harvard where law Professors Larry Lessig and Charles Nesson have started the Open Law Project, an attempt to try cases using the open-source model."

Source:   THOMPSON, NICHOLAS. "Reboot" Washington Monthly 32.3 Mar. 1 2000: 9 Google This

11. " These passages show it is "really" possible to change the terms by which we understand reality (and they show, too, that my own language is not simply fantastic or even "anti-theoretical") as they..."

Source:   Shiffer, Celia. ""You see, I am no stranger to love": Jeanette Winterson and the extasy of the word" CRITIQUE: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 46.1 Sept. 22 2004: 31-53

12. " Instead of loving their world, these characters vainly attempt to impose order upon it. Ritual is one ordering device, language another -- the characters habitually rechristen whomever they are speaking to. But Sepulchrave's..."

Source:   BILLEN, ANDREW. "Peake time viewing TELEVISION" New Statesman (1996) 129.4470 Jan. 24 2000: 49 Google This

13. " In all of these plays, wonder serves as a way of focusing on what Bishop calls "incarnation," Shakespeare's attempt to apprehend the world by fusing material reality and language."

Source:   Anderson, Linda. "Shakespeare and the Theatre of Wonder" Renaissance Quarterly v51.n3 Sept. 22 1998: 1054-1056 Google This

14. " Even so, the dominant white power structure remains an ever-present, direct, unsolved challenge--to Denise's language, to her brothers' attempts to "make it" in the outside world, to Precious's upward climb out of institutions toward some amount of control over her own life."

Source:   Reid, E. Shelley. "Beyond Morrison and Walker: Looking Good and Looking Forward in Contemporary Black Women's Stories" African American Review 34.2 June 22 2000: 313 Google This

15. " For the translator this resistance is felt in the strangeness of the text that is not original to the English language it uses but to the world it is attempting to represent."

Source:   OPITZ, ANDREA. "James Welch's Fools Crow and the Imagination of Precolonial Space: A Translator's Approach" American Indian Quarterly 24.1 Jan. 1 2000: 126 Google This

16. " Each effort made, each failed or less-than-failed attempt to create an experience by language or color and paper, is imagination reaching forward to touch the world."

Source:   HIRSHEIELD, JANE. "Kingfishers Catching Fire: Seeing with Poetry's Eyes" American Poetry Review 29.1 Jan. 1 2000: 9 Google This

17. " It seems to me that some of those who approach the world through language--including Wittgenstein, J.L. Austin, and Korzybski--are attempting to discover the subtleties of the linguistic structure, to break it open to discern its impacts on individual thinking, feeling, and behavior."

Source:   Probert, Walter. "Law talk and words consciousness" ETC.: A Review of General Semantics 51.4 Dec. 1 2004: 621-630 Google This

18. "... state "to call on the allegiance of its citizens to a degree which it had not previously attempted." (36) The sacrifices that the state demanded of Europe's citizens in World War I would not have been possible, he continues, "without an extension of the..."

Source:   Lindseth, Peter L. "The paradox of parliamentary supremacy: delegation, democracy, and dictatorship in Germany and France, 1920s-1950s" Yale Law Journal 113.7 May 1 2004: 1341-1418 Google This

19. "... how language shapes, limits, and makes possible certain worlds (Alvermann, Commeyras, Young, Randall, & Hinson, 1997; Brantlinger, 1993; Davies, 1993: Delpit, 1995; Weis, 1990)."

Source:   MOJE, ELIZABETH B.,DILLON, DEBORAH R.,O'BRIEN, DAVID. "Reexamining Roles of Learner, Text, and Context in Secondary Literacy" Journal of Educational Research 93.3 Jan. 1 2000: 165 Google This

20. " Hacker states: 'It is by means of "the naming-relation", the association of a logically proper name (simple unsayable) with its meaning, viz, an object, that any possible language is unambiguously connected with the world'. [6] The result is that the relation name-object becomes problematic."

Source:   VERBIN, N. K. "Religious beliefs and aspect seeing" Religious Studies 36.1 Mar. 1 2000: 1 Google This

21. " Such inquiry allows them to learn more about how language functions in the world, even as it makes possible a clearer understanding of the implicit purposes of examination prompts for persuasive essays and of how to address their apparent and underlying purposes."

Source:   Luna, Catherine,Solsken, Judith,Kutz, Eleanor. "DEFINING LITERACY LESSONS FROM HIGH-STAKES TEACHER TESTING" Journal of Teacher Education 51.4 Sept. 1 2000: 276 Google This

22. " Dolezel's theoretical assumptions, stated in the prologue, "From Nonexistent Entities to Fictional Worlds," can be summarized as follows: 1. Fictional worlds are possible worlds constructed by language through a performative force granted to imaginative literature by cultural convention."

Source:   Ryan, Marie-Laure. "Heterocosmica: Fiction and Possible Worlds" Style 32.3 Sept. 22 1998: 518-525 Google This

23. "... media workers who use their, undoubtedly modest, intellectual capacity to fight in order to destroy our mother tongue as quickly as possible." Klima resents the number of foreign words which the modern technical world inflicts on the language..."

Source:   . "Kruh nepratel ceskeho jazyka" World Literature Today 74.1 Jan. 1 2000: 192 Google This

24. " The author then lays out three possible scenarios for the future in the emerging shared space of Catholics and Pentecostals: (1) "Mutual Flight from the World" as both groups withdraw from attempts to respond to urgent social and economic problems of..."

Source:   Hallum, Anne Motley. "Religious Politics in Latin America: Pentecostal vs.Catholic" American Political Science Review 94.3 Sept. 1 2000: 758 Google This

25. "... travel, of course, on the language of retrieval and interpretation, the intertextuality of versions of reality based in the relationships of possible worlds."

Source:   Pearce, Howard. "David Mamet's Old Neighborhood: journey and geography" American Drama 14.1 Jan. 1 2005: 46-63 Google This

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