Studies in WordsHarper Collins, 05/11/2013 - 100 من الصفحات Language—in its communicative and playful functions, its literary formations and its shifting meanings—is a perennially fascinating topic. C. S. Lewis's Studies in Words explores this fascination by taking a series of words and teasing out their connotations using examples from a vast range of English literature, recovering lost meanings and analyzing their functions. It doubles as an absorbing and entertaining study of verbal communication, its pleasures and problems. The issues revealed are essential to all who read and communicate thoughtfully, and are handled here by a masterful exponent and analyst of the English language. |
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... Hence the difficulty of 'making sense' out of a strange phrase will seldom be for him insuperable. Where the duller reader simply does not understand, he misunderstands—triumphantly, brilliantly. But it is not enough to make sense. We ...
... Hence the difficulty of 'making sense' out of a strange phrase will seldom be for him insuperable. Where the duller reader simply does not understand, he misunderstands—triumphantly, brilliantly. But it is not enough to make sense. We ...
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... Hence the tendency of words to become less descriptive and more evaluative; then to become evaluative, while still retaining some hint of the sort of goodness or badness implied; and to end up by being purely evaluative— useless ...
... Hence the tendency of words to become less descriptive and more evaluative; then to become evaluative, while still retaining some hint of the sort of goodness or badness implied; and to end up by being purely evaluative— useless ...
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... hence 'a thing of whatever kind', and hence almost 'everything'. Those who wish to go further back will notice that natura shares a common base with nasci (to be born); with the noun natus (birth); with natio (not only a race or nation ...
... hence 'a thing of whatever kind', and hence almost 'everything'. Those who wish to go further back will notice that natura shares a common base with nasci (to be born); with the noun natus (birth); with natio (not only a race or nation ...
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... Hence 'kind jeweler' in Pearl (l. 276), or 'kinde caroles' in Gawain (l.473). 5. The meanings 'suitable', pius, and 'noble'—and especially the last, as the parallel development of gentle shows—may all have played a part in producing ...
... Hence 'kind jeweler' in Pearl (l. 276), or 'kinde caroles' in Gawain (l.473). 5. The meanings 'suitable', pius, and 'noble'—and especially the last, as the parallel development of gentle shows—may all have played a part in producing ...
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Sad with Gravis | |
Wit with Ingenium | |
Free with Eleutherios Liberal Frank etc | |
Sense with Sentence Sensibility and Sensible | |
Simple | |
World | |
Life | |
Dare | |
At the Fringe of Language | |
Notes | |
About the Author | |
Also by C S Lewis Copyright About the Publisher | |
Conscience and Conscious | |
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actual adjective aion already become beginning believe better branch centuries certainly character comes common conscience conscious consciring context contrast course criticism dangerous dare describe distinction doubt earth emotion English examples exist expression fact feel finally give Greek hand Hence human idea important kind knowledge kosmos language later Latin learned less linguistic live man’s mean meant merely mind moral nature nature d.s. never noticed object once opposite originally particular passage perhaps period phusis poet poetry possible present probably question reader reason reference says seems semantic sense sensible sensus shows simple sometimes sort speaker speaks suggest sure talk tell term things thought translate true turn universe usage usually villain whole word writes