Studies in Words (Lewis - paperback)

Author: C. S. Lewis

ISBN: 9781107688650

Binding: paperback

Section: C.S. Lewis

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.