"It is an honor and a privilege to preside over the jury of a festival that proves, again and again, that cinema is the language of the world, " Spielberg was quoted as saying in a statement by the Cannes festival organizers.
The pre-eminence of the City as a financial centre and of English as the language of world business are also both vital in pulling in foreign workers.
The Director-General, Irina Bokova, welcomed the initiative to hold the celebration and underlined the outstanding historical contribution of the Arabic language to world civilization.
Why? because it is the one language of money the world understands and knows the challenges of acquiring.
The language of war is more the world of men than women, as is Wall Street.
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As a result, they are trapped in the language of absolutes, viewing the world only in black and white.
This novel, Emmanuel Darley's second, is the story of an exclusive love that turns into a nightmare, perhaps because the protagonists have no common language: the boy is enclosed in the simplicity of his own world, the little girl only laughs or cries, and the police speak only the language of the law.
Sociologists, psychologists, rhetoricians, linguists, and historians of science have all noted the importance of language, metaphor, and definition to our very understanding of the world around us.
With support from Norway, UNESCO published a 2-volume book in the Mayangna language based on their indigenous knowledge of the natural world.
Murdoch closed the Sunday tabloid, one of the world's best-selling English-language newspapers, in 2011 over the phone-hacking scandal.
The combination brings together two of the world's leading English language publishers, with highly complementary skills and strengths.
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This was accompanied by a proprietorial admission that French has decisively lost the battle for status as the world language and that English is now the established global means of communication, for practical matters and for a growing range of cultural ones.
The American language became the richest in the world, because the settlers encountered so many different kinds of people.
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The United States, throughout its emergence as a world power, had spoken the language of liberation, rescue, and freedom.
Suffice it say, these are issues not of the manipulation of language, but how language changes as the world which it express changes.
The fact is that boys' language skills tend to lag behind those of girls' the world over.
In it he reminds us that, between the mid-17th century and World War I, French was the universal language of diplomacy, culture and fashion and that an ability to read and speak it was essential to anyone claiming to be educated.
The number of specialist announcers on the World Service English language service will shrink and a new management team will work across distribution, channel management and commissioning.
The big question: can the world economy in its current condition sustain the advancement of English as a language of international business in the foreseeable future?
By the nineteenth century, the dream of constructing a philosophical language capable of expressing universal truths had given way to the equally ambitious desire to unite the world through a single, easy-to-learn, politically neutral, auxiliary language.
In the little world of gold standard advocacy in the English language, most of the books date from the 1960s and 1970s.
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"You are working very closely with people from a different culture, different language, different part of the world but you build common bonds around shared priorities, " Cotton said.
Historians and sociologists of science have made a convincing case that language plays a crucial role in the production of knowledge about the natural world.
This heritage may exist in any language, in any part of the world, and in any area of human knowledge or expression.
This is a guest post by Nataly Kelly, Chief Research Officer at the Boston-based research firm Common Sense Advisory and author of Found in Translation: How Language Shapes Our Lives and Transforms the World (Penguin).
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Seven years later launched television network TV Azteca, now nation's number 2 network and second-largest producer of Spanish-language television in the world.
It sounds very inside baseball, but the partnership means that millions of students from around the world can now receive a free education in their preferred language.
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If, as the phrase goes, another language equals another soul, then some 3, 054 souls -- 50% of the world's total languages -- are set to die out by 2100.
Employees can learn high-demand skills like the Python programming language, software testing, statistics and web development from anywhere in the world, at any time of day.
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Most of the non-English speaking world is literally locked out of the domain name system by reason of limitations in language.
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