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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... becomes second nature; the slightest semantic discomfort in one's reading rouses one, like a terrier, to the game. No doubt I thus learned rather laboriously from my own reading some things that could have been learned more quickly from ...
... becomes second nature; the slightest semantic discomfort in one's reading rouses one, like a terrier, to the game. No doubt I thus learned rather laboriously from my own reading some things that could have been learned more quickly from ...
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... 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 synonyms for good or for bad. We shall ...
... 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 synonyms for good or for bad. We shall ...
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... become almost impossible. There is, I understand, a species of modern poetry which is so written that it cannot be fully received unless all the possible senses of words are operative in the reader's mind. Whether there was any such ...
... become almost impossible. There is, I understand, a species of modern poetry which is so written that it cannot be fully received unless all the possible senses of words are operative in the reader's mind. Whether there was any such ...
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... becomes very common it will in the end establish itself as one of the word's meanings; this is one of the ways in ... become one of the word's meanings by being a very common speaker's meaning. Men who said 'my furniture' were often ...
... becomes very common it will in the end establish itself as one of the word's meanings; this is one of the ways in ... become one of the word's meanings by being a very common speaker's meaning. Men who said 'my furniture' were often ...
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... become words which assign a type of character and behaviour. Those implying superior status can become terms of praise; those implying inferior status, terms of disapproval. Chivalrous, courteous, frank, generous, gentle, liberal, and ...
... become words which assign a type of character and behaviour. Those implying superior status can become terms of praise; those implying inferior status, terms of disapproval. Chivalrous, courteous, frank, generous, gentle, liberal, and ...
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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