Titlebook: Words in Everyday Life; G. L. Brook Book 1981 G. L. Brook 1981 English.Everyday Life.linguistics

Agronomy

Parley

倔強(qiáng)不能

Dialect and Slang,ialect and a register is that the former is used habitually by a group of people, while the latter depends on the occasion when it is used, formal or informal, for business or for pleasure. The difficulty in distinguishing between the two varieties arises because a group may be either permanent or t

干旱

Semantics,mmon practice for one of the disputants to dismiss his opponent’s argument by saying that it is merely a matter of semantics, while he goes on to reiterate his own arguments. This approach is open to two objections. The first is the use of the word ‘merely’. When disputants are arguing with words —

FLOUR

死亡

Language and Literature,I then made the salutary discovery that it was difficult to find an Anglo-Saxon word for ‘literature’ that did not also mean ‘language’. The supposed rift between language and literature is one about which much has been heard in universities during the last century, but today there are welcome signs

大方不好

Entreaty

Reform,ints of detail which happened to interest them. Some of the critics have been well-known men of letters, and such writers may choose to exert an influence by example rather than precept. Swift was one of the most vigorous of the reformers of English, but he has probably exerted more influence by the

Trigger-Point

Semantics,and no other method of argument is in general use — the meanings that they attach to the words they use are of fundamental importance, not something to be dismissed. The second objection is that the comment should be followed, as it rarely is, by an examination of what semantic problems are involved and how they affect the argument.

Demulcent