It's quiet, it's warm, Now imagine you're born deaf, you cannot hear, you cannot communicate by spoken words with your friends and family.

四周一片寂静，温暖，再来假设你自幼失聪，不能和家人，朋友用语言交流。

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And I became interested in the way human rights' language and human rights' talk.

我的兴趣还扩大到了,人权的语言和人权的交流。

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Content is a function -or let me say practical language, the purpose, in other words, of communicating facts or of communicating at all, which we associate with practical language -is a function of poetic language.

他们认为，内容即是功能,实用语言的目的，就是交流，我们总是把交流和实用语言联系,但其实它也是诗歌语言的功能。

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