Studies in Words (Canto)
Edition: 2 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 30, 1990
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9780521398312
Subjects: Language & Linguistics; Literary studies: general; Semantics; English Semantics; Language Arts & Disciplines; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Language; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Linguistics; Language Arts & Disciplines / General
First sentence: IN this chapter we shall have to consider Greek phusis, Latin natura (with its derivatives), and English kind.
Description: 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.