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Weber (Forest Whitaker), recruits a small team to attempt to figure out what the aliens want, led by linguistics professor Louise Banks (Amy Adams) and physicist Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner). The 2016 movie 'Arrival,' an adaptation of Ted Chiang's novella 'Story of Your Life,' captured the imaginations of science fiction fans worldwide. Ben Zimmer goes behind the scenes on solving the riddle of communication. Military intelligence in the United States, personified by Col. A linguistics professor played by Amy Adams must decipher an alien language to save humanity in a new movie. Governments cordon off the sites, people panic and speculation runs wild, but the spacecraft just sit there. How would humanity respond? With fear, suspicion and weapons? Or with an attempt at communication and understanding?Ĭalled “Message” in Japan, “Arrival” is set in a future that could be tomorrow or next month, in which the world wakes up one day and turns on the news to learn that 12 massive monolith-like spacecraft have landed on the planet. Wells in “War of the Worlds” to Roland Emmerich in “Independence Day” has envisioned a swarm of spacecraft attacking us, Villeneuve imagines what would happen if the aliens landed and just chilled. With “Arrival,” director Denis Villeneuve takes a very familiar alien invasion scenario and tries to put a new twist on it. Objective The Linguistic Review publishes high-quality papers in phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics, within a framework of Generative Grammar and related disciplines, as well as critical discussions of theoretical linguistics as a branch of cognitive psychology.
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