They don't think so much of language as a mediating force as an expressive force.

他们不觉得这多么言语,是一种调和的力量，是一种表达的力量。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Or just to be pluralistic in our language, coulombic force.

换种说法，即库仑力。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

By requiring speakers to carefully consider the meaning of their words, he hoped that his analytical language would force many of the subterranean quirks of human cognition to the surface, and free people from the bugs that infect their thinking.

NEWYORKER: Utopian for Beginners

So-called foreign policy realists, particularly in the academic world, believe that the competing interests of states tend automatically toward balance and require no statesmanlike action by the U.S. To them, the old language of force in international politics has become as obsolete as that of the "code duello, " which regulated individual honor fights through the early 19th century.

WSJ: Eliot Cohen: American Withdrawal and World Disorder

For the Zachry sections, Mitchell constructed post-apocalyptic mutations of the English language, which effectively force readers to translate as they go.

NEWYORKER: Beyond the Matrix