The Norton Reader: An Anthology of Expository ProseArthur M. Eastman |
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... language ( grammatical meaning ) ; to a remarkable extent it also lies within people as users of a language ( connotative meaning ) . To illustrate this , try the following experi- ment : ask a number of speakers of English what the ...
... language ( grammatical meaning ) ; to a remarkable extent it also lies within people as users of a language ( connotative meaning ) . To illustrate this , try the following experi- ment : ask a number of speakers of English what the ...
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... language , language can also corrupt thought . A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation , even among people who should and do know better . The debased lan- guage that I have been discussing is in some ways very convenient ...
... language , language can also corrupt thought . A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation , even among people who should and do know better . The debased lan- guage that I have been discussing is in some ways very convenient ...
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... language is , indeed , hard to hold in conception , and perhaps impossible to communicate , in the proper and strict sense of the word " communi- cate . " But fortunately our logical intuition , or form - perception , is really much ...
... language is , indeed , hard to hold in conception , and perhaps impossible to communicate , in the proper and strict sense of the word " communi- cate . " But fortunately our logical intuition , or form - perception , is really much ...
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PERSONAL REPORT | 1 |
Maya Angelou High School Graduation | 11 |
Bernadette Devlin Politics in the University | 21 |
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