Studies in words / by C.S. Lewis.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge ; London : Cambridge U.P., 1967.Edition: 2nd edDescription: vii, 343 p. ; 21 cmISBN: - 0521093716
- 9780521093712
- 0521055474
- 9780521055475
- 422 18
- PE1585 .L4 1967
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| 421.5GLEin An introduction to descriptive linguistics / | 421.9BRIpu Punctuation : | 422GARwh Why you say it / | 422LEWst Studies in words / | 423D.E.ox Oxford student's dictionary of English / | 423NEUwe Webster's New world dictionary / | 423OXF The Concise Oxford dictionary of current English : |
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- Nature (with phusis, kind, physical etc.) -- Sad (with gravis) -- Wit (with ingenium) -- Free (with eleutherios, liberal, frank etc.) -- Sense (with sentence, sensibility and sensible) -- Simple -- Conscience and conscious -- World -- Life -- I dare say -- At the fringe of language.
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 analysing 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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