- English language, semantics, English language, etymology, English language, Semantics
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.
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Spare, warm, cool and contemplative.
- sparerichly built
- warmbleak
- cooloverwhelming
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
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- Author
- C. S. Lewis
- First published
- 1990
- Pages
- 349
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780521398312
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“IN this chapter we shall have to consider Greek phusis, Latin natura (with its derivatives), and English kind.”
Clive Staples Lewis was an Irish-born British novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist.
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