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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... behaviour. Those implying superior status can become terms of praise; those implying inferior status, terms of disapproval. Chivalrous, courteous, frank, generous, gentle, liberal, and noble are examples of the first; ignoble, villain ...
... behaviour. Those implying superior status can become terms of praise; those implying inferior status, terms of disapproval. Chivalrous, courteous, frank, generous, gentle, liberal, and noble are examples of the first; ignoble, villain ...
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... behaviour. This I take to be the peculiar, and transitory, result of a revolutionary situation. The earlier usage—bourgeois as 'not aristocratic'—is the normal linguistic phenomenon. It will be diagnosed by many as a symptom of the ...
... behaviour. This I take to be the peculiar, and transitory, result of a revolutionary situation. The earlier usage—bourgeois as 'not aristocratic'—is the normal linguistic phenomenon. It will be diagnosed by many as a symptom of the ...
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... behaviour or state which shows a thing's, or a person's, kind or nature— which is characteristic of it, typical, normal, and therefore to be expected—may be called 'kind'. We are told that on a particular occasion Beowulf behaved with ...
... behaviour or state which shows a thing's, or a person's, kind or nature— which is characteristic of it, typical, normal, and therefore to be expected—may be called 'kind'. We are told that on a particular occasion Beowulf behaved with ...
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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