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Author Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963.

Title Studies in words / by C. S. Lewis
Edition Second edition
Published Cambridge ; London : Cambridge Uuniveristy Press, 1967

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Description vii, 343 pages ; 20 1/2 cm
Series Canto
Knjižnica Canto.
Contents 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
Summary 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
Notes Bibliographical footnotes
Bibliography Bibliographical footnotes
Subject English language -- Etymology.
English language -- Semantics.
English language -- Words -- History
LC no. 66010799
ISBN 0521055474
0521398312