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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... reader may reasonably ask what difference there will be, for him, between reading one of my chapters and looking up ... readers I have principally in view are students. One Introduction.
... reader may reasonably ask what difference there will be, for him, between reading one of my chapters and looking up ... readers I have principally in view are students. One Introduction.
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... reader will, without knowledge, be most in danger of them. His mind bubbles over with possible meanings. He has ready to hand unthoughtof metaphors, highly individual shades of feeling, subtle associations, ambiguities—every manner of ...
... reader will, without knowledge, be most in danger of them. His mind bubbles over with possible meanings. He has ready to hand unthoughtof metaphors, highly individual shades of feeling, subtle associations, ambiguities—every manner of ...
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... reader away with a new sense of responsibility to the language. It is unnecessary defeatism to believe that we can do nothing about it. Our conversation will have little effect; but if we get into print—perhaps especially if we are ...
... reader away with a new sense of responsibility to the language. It is unnecessary defeatism to believe that we can do nothing about it. Our conversation will have little effect; but if we get into print—perhaps especially if we are ...
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... reader's mind. Whether there was any such poetry before the present century—whether all old poetry thus read is misread—are questions we need not discuss here. What seems to me certain is that in ordinary language the sense of a word is ...
... reader's mind. Whether there was any such poetry before the present century—whether all old poetry thus read is misread—are questions we need not discuss here. What seems to me certain is that in ordinary language the sense of a word is ...
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... readers of A.V.: 'every winged fowl after his kind'.4 The gecyndlimu or 'kindlimbs' are certainly the genitals. When the author of the AngloSaxon Phoenix says (l. 355) that God only knows that bird's gecynde he certainly means its sex ...
... readers of A.V.: 'every winged fowl after his kind'.4 The gecyndlimu or 'kindlimbs' are certainly the genitals. When the author of the AngloSaxon Phoenix says (l. 355) that God only knows that bird's gecynde he certainly means its sex ...
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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