- English language, Semantiek, Semantics, Anglais (Langue)
Introduces the principles of semantics, explains how language works, and how an understanding of semantics is useful in everyday life situations.
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Cool, spare, classical in form and warm.
- cooloverwhelming
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
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- Author
- S. I. Hayakawa
- First published
- 1949
- Pages
- 307
- Publisher
- Iwanami Shoten, G. Allen, Harcourt, Brace & World
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English, Japanese
- ISBN
- 9780155501188
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“PEOPLE WHO THINK of themselves as tough-minded and realistic tend to take it for granted that human nature is selfish and that life is a struggle in which only the fittest may survive.”
Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa (July 18, 1906 – February 27, 1992) was a Canadian-born American academic and politician of Japanese ancestry. A professor of English, he served as president of San Francisco State University and then as U.S. Senator from California from 1977 to 1983. [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._I._Hayakawa)
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