Whatever I'm writing about all the time and chapters rehashing since I have written so that's linguistic.

不论一直以来我在写什么,自从我开始写作，就一直寻求变化,语言因素是这种改变的动因。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

You say to yourself, "Ah ha! There is an example of somebody taking language by the scruff of the neck and changing it as an individual, exerting an individual will over against the conventional nature of language."

你也许会想，这不就是一个,凭个人力量改变语言,的活生生的例子吗,它的确改变了语言的惯例“

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

So there is this sense in which the story of a developing writer is the story of someone learning even before they learn how to control language fully that language has these capacities.

书要讲给我们的,其实就是有关理查学习的过程,告诉我们语言在还无法很好被控制的时候,就已经有能力改变理查的生活。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

So, for instance, one example is there's no language in the world that ever constructs a question by switching the order of words around in a sentence.

举例来说,世界上并没有语言能够通过,改变句子中词的顺序,来构成疑问句

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选