Studies in Words - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Studies in Words write by C. S. Lewis. This book was released on 1990-09-13. Studies in Words available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. C. S. Lewis explores the fascination with language by taking a series of words and teasing out their connotations.
Studies in Words
Studies in Words - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Studies in Words write by C. S. Lewis. This book was released on 2013-11-05. Studies in Words available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 analyzing 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.
Studies in the Way of Words
Studies in the Way of Words - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Studies in the Way of Words write by Paul Grice. This book was released on 1991-04-01. Studies in the Way of Words available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume, Paul Grice’s first book, includes the long-delayed publication of his enormously influential 1967 William James Lectures. But there is much, much more in this work. Grice himself has carefully arranged and framed the sequence of essays to emphasize not a certain set of ideas but a habit of mind, a style of philosophizing. Grice has, to be sure, provided philosophy with crucial ideas. His account of speaker-meaning is the standard that others use to define their own minor divergences or future elaborations. His discussion of conversational implicatures has given philosophers an important tool for the investigation of all sorts of problems; it has also laid the foundation for a great deal of work by other philosophers and linguists about presupposition. His metaphysical defense of absolute values is starting to be considered the beginning of a new phase in philosophy. This is a vital book for all who are interested in Anglo-American philosophy.
Words and Phrases
Words and Phrases - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Words and Phrases write by Michael Stubbs. This book was released on 2001-10-08. Words and Phrases available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book fills a gap in studies of meaning by providing detailed case studies of attested corpus data on the meanings of words and phrases.
Native Studies Keywords
Native Studies Keywords - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Native Studies Keywords write by Stephanie Nohelani Teves. This book was released on 2015-05-21. Native Studies Keywords available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Native Studies Keywords explores selected concepts in Native studies and the words commonly used to describe them, words whose meanings have been insufficiently examined. This edited volume focuses on the following eight concepts: sovereignty, land, indigeneity, nation, blood, tradition, colonialism, and indigenous knowledge. Each section includes three or four essays and provides definitions, meanings, and significance to the concept, lending a historical, social, and political context. Take sovereignty, for example. The word has served as the battle cry for social justice in Indian Country. But what is the meaning of sovereignty? Native peoples with diverse political beliefs all might say they support sovereignty—without understanding fully the meaning and implications packed in the word. The field of Native studies is filled with many such words whose meanings are presumed, rather than articulated or debated. Consequently, the foundational terms within Native studies always have multiple and conflicting meanings. These terms carry the colonial baggage that has accrued from centuries of contested words. Native Studies Keywords is a genealogical project that looks at the history of words that claim to have no history. It is the first book to examine the foundational concepts of Native American studies, offering multiple perspectives and opening a critical new conversation.
