The Play of LanguageOxford University Press, 1971 - 404 pàgines The essays in this collection give full attention to dictionaries, language change, standards of usage (and the continuing arguments over same), and dialect. The section entitled "Language as Metaphor and Play" analyzes the diversity of language, linguistic ambiguities, and other complications of communication. |
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Change | 27 |
Standards | 155 |
THE EDITORS OF THE NEW YORK TIMES Websters | 165 |
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American appear become beginning better called century common consider course definition describe dialect dictionary distinction effect English essay example expression fact feel forms function genius give grammar human ideas illustrate important interest kind language least less linguistic living look marks matter meaning metaphor MICHIGAN nature never nouns object once original past patterns person phonemes phrase play political possible practice present problem pronounced pronunciation put-on question reason relation result rhetoric rules seems sense sentence simply situation social sound speak speaker speech spelling standard statement structure suggest talk thing thought tion traditional turn universal usage usually verb vocabulary vowel whole words writing written York
Referències a aquest llibre
Language Play: An Introduction to Linguistics Don Lee Fred Nilsen,Alleen Pace Nilsen Visualització de fragments - 1978 |