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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... things that could have been learned more quickly from the N.E.D. But I would advise everyone to do the same so far—a serious qualification—as his time allows. One understands a word much better if one has met it alive, in its native ...
... things that could have been learned more quickly from the N.E.D. But I would advise everyone to do the same so far—a serious qualification—as his time allows. One understands a word much better if one has met it alive, in its native ...
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... things it thinks about, which can produce the same results under very different conditions. After hearing one chapter of this book when it was still a lecture, a man remarked to me 'You have made me afraid to say anything at all'. I ...
... things it thinks about, which can produce the same results under very different conditions. After hearing one chapter of this book when it was still a lecture, a man remarked to me 'You have made me afraid to say anything at all'. I ...
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... things by it. The use of the verb mean both for the word's force and for the speaker's intention can doubtless be criticised, and distinctions could be drawn. But I am not here embarking on 'the meaning of meaning' nor high linguistics ...
... things by it. The use of the verb mean both for the word's force and for the speaker's intention can doubtless be criticised, and distinctions could be drawn. But I am not here embarking on 'the meaning of meaning' nor high linguistics ...
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... things referred to as furniture in that context obviously were in fact domestic movables. The usage might record merely a speaker's meaning. You cannot infer a 'word's meaning' any more than you can infer from my most habitual use of ...
... things referred to as furniture in that context obviously were in fact domestic movables. The usage might record merely a speaker's meaning. You cannot infer a 'word's meaning' any more than you can infer from my most habitual use of ...
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... things (or even one specimen of the things) which that science studies. This transference I call the methodological idiom. It may produce ambiguity: 'Freud's psychology' might mean either a subject of which we have all heard much or one ...
... things (or even one specimen of the things) which that science studies. This transference I call the methodological idiom. It may produce ambiguity: 'Freud's psychology' might mean either a subject of which we have all heard much or one ...
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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