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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... Latin exercise and sentences of imprisonment, about a cardboard box and a box at the theatre. He does not even ask which are different words and which merely different senses. Nor, for the most part, do we. How many adults know whether ...
... Latin exercise and sentences of imprisonment, about a cardboard box and a box at the theatre. He does not even ask which are different words and which merely different senses. Nor, for the most part, do we. How many adults know whether ...
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... Latin or Italian word. A purely English dictionary is more likely to be influenced by the lexicographer's ideas of how words ought to be used; therefore worse evidence of how they actually were used. But when we leave the dictionaries ...
... Latin or Italian word. A purely English dictionary is more likely to be influenced by the lexicographer's ideas of how words ought to be used; therefore worse evidence of how they actually were used. But when we leave the dictionaries ...
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... Latin natura (with its derivatives), and English kind. Each of the three has a great number of senses, and two of these senses are common to all of them. One appears to have been reached independently by all three words. The other was ...
... Latin natura (with its derivatives), and English kind. Each of the three has a great number of senses, and two of these senses are common to all of them. One appears to have been reached independently by all three words. The other was ...
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... Latin is in having a special name for this kind of kind; Greek has to make do with genos, and German with Geschlecht. Kind also means 'progeny', 'offspring'. In Piers Plowman the beasts all 'follow reason', show moderation, 'in etying ...
... Latin is in having a special name for this kind of kind; Greek has to make do with genos, and German with Geschlecht. Kind also means 'progeny', 'offspring'. In Piers Plowman the beasts all 'follow reason', show moderation, 'in etying ...
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... Latin derivative may have been influenced by that of the Germanic word. Naturaliter did not mean 'of course', as 'naturally' and naturellement often do. This sense is so strangely remote from other senses of 'naturally' that we can say ...
... Latin derivative may have been influenced by that of the Germanic word. Naturaliter did not mean 'of course', as 'naturally' and naturellement often do. This sense is so strangely remote from other senses of 'naturally' that we can say ...
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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