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C. S. Lewis explores the fascination with language by taking a series of words and teasing out their connotations.

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Blood. Invention. Language. Resistance. World. Five ordinary words that do a great deal of conceptual work in everyday life and literature. In this ... More

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Anglo-Saxon Keywords presents a series of entries that reveal the links between modern ideas and scholarship and the central concepts of Anglo-Saxon ... More

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A major concern in current anthropological thinking is that the method of recording or translating into writing a society's cultural expressions- ... More

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This Festschrift covers a wide range of fields within linguistics, with special focus on French lexicon, morphology and syntax and more generally on ... More

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Within the historical literary genre, stylistics is widely applicable but as yet under deployed. This book acts as a showcase for the range of ... More

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The Modernist movement in literature had revolutionary aspirations and pioneered new possibilities of literary expression. One of its major projects ... More

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In this wide-ranging, challenging theoretical study, Julian Wolfreys offers close readings of films, novels and poetry in order to draw attention to ... More

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English offers verbal expressions in two basic forms: simple verbs such as walk and look, and periphrastic expressions such as have/take a walk and ... More

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The volume presents a set of invited papers based on analyses of legal discourse drawn from a number of international contexts where often the ... More

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This book focuses on ambiguity in "Troilus and Criseyde", one of Geoffrey Chaucer's (1343 -1400) representative works. It examines systematically how ... More

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This volume, composed mainly of papers given at the 1999 conferences of the Forum for German Language Studies (FGLS) at Kent and the Conference of ... More

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This book aims to give a general overview of the current theoretical and applied models which are being developed in the field of Cognitive ... More

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"Wyse Words" is a collection of words that should exist, but don't, helping us define an increasingly bewildering world. Wonderfully funny, yet ... More

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This book represents an authentic reproduction of the text as printed by the original publisher. While we have attempted to accurately maintain the ... More

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Drawing from his "Speaking of Language" columns written for "The Montreal Gazette," Howard Richler invites readers to enjoy the pleasures of ... More

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In this authoritative and attractively written book Crystal asks all the right questions about the language that Shakespeare used and the ways in ... More

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It is a task that no man has ever completed: to bring back a magical ram's fleece that lies hidden in a far-off land, guarded by an all-seeing ... More

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Sir Paul Harvey's original Oxford Companion to English Literaure, published in 1932, was the book that began Oxford's celebrated Companion series. In ... More

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Patrick Sims-Williams provides an approach to some of the issues surrounding Irish literary influence on Wales, situating them in the context of the ... More

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This book, by a leading Reformation scholar, is the only comprehensive introduction to Zwingli's thought for the student and general reader. In it ... More

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