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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... course checked my results by the N.E.D. It has often given me the perfect example for which I had searched my own reading in vain; often (pereant qui ante nos!) mortified me by anticipating the beautiful example I had already found for ...
... course checked my results by the N.E.D. It has often given me the perfect example for which I had searched my own reading in vain; often (pereant qui ante nos!) mortified me by anticipating the beautiful example I had already found for ...
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... course we do not read the poem the old writer intended. What we get may still be, in our opinion, a poem; but it will be our poem, not his. If we call this tout court 'reading' the old poet, we are deceiving ourselves. If we reject as ...
... course we do not read the poem the old writer intended. What we get may still be, in our opinion, a poem; but it will be our poem, not his. If we call this tout court 'reading' the old poet, we are deceiving ourselves. If we reject as ...
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... course, be philologically minded. If so, it may construct imaginary semantic trees for itself. But it does so to explain the usages it has already learned; the usage is not a result of the theory. As a child I—probably like many others ...
... course, be philologically minded. If so, it may construct imaginary semantic trees for itself. But it does so to explain the usages it has already learned; the usage is not a result of the theory. As a child I—probably like many others ...
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... course the insulating power of the context which enables old senses to persist, uncontaminated by newer ones. Thus train (of a dress) and train (on the railway), or civil (courteous) and civil (not military), or magazine (a store) and ...
... course the insulating power of the context which enables old senses to persist, uncontaminated by newer ones. Thus train (of a dress) and train (on the railway), or civil (courteous) and civil (not military), or magazine (a store) and ...
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... course, when a foreigner or imperfectly educated native is actually mistaken as to standard usage and commits a malapropism; using deprecate, say, to mean 'depreciate', or disinterested to mean 'bored', or scarify to mean 'scare'. But ...
... course, when a foreigner or imperfectly educated native is actually mistaken as to standard usage and commits a malapropism; using deprecate, say, to mean 'depreciate', or disinterested to mean 'bored', or scarify to mean 'scare'. But ...
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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