The Anatomy of Language: Saying What We Mean

by Marjorie Boulton

Overview

First published in 1959, this book aims to provide a practical introduction to semantics, relating the critical study of language to real-life situation, with a wealth of anecdotes and numerous illustrations drawn from everyday personal predicaments. This book provides much information and much material for profitable discussion, helping to make accessible what can be a highly academic subject comprehensible only to a minority. This book provides a highly valuable foundation for students of linguistics and will provide preparation for further study.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138690745
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/27/2018
Series:	Routledge Library Editions: Semantics and Semiology
Pages:	182
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Marjorie Boulton

Table of Contents

Foreword; Part I Understanding and Misunderstanding; I. What are Words For? II. The Key to Misunderstanding III. Some Causes of Misunderstanding IV. Vague Words and Exact Words V. Let Us Look At Some Words VI. Words That Have Changed VII. International Semantics; Part II The Misuse of Language; VIII. Advertising IX. What is Sentimentality? X. What I Tell You Three Time is False XI. Whitewash Language XII. Language of Quarrels XIII. Lying to Ourselves; Part III Literary Semantics; XIV. Rhetoric XV. Metaphor and Association; Index