Harvard Educational Review, Volumes 16-18Howard Eugene Wilson Harvard University, 1946 |
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... meaning is not achieved by adding up the separate meanings of the words in a passage . That is not how language works . As the con- text changes , the meaning of particu- lar words in the context undergoes change . Not that words ...
... meaning is not achieved by adding up the separate meanings of the words in a passage . That is not how language works . As the con- text changes , the meaning of particu- lar words in the context undergoes change . Not that words ...
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... meaning it has or should have . For this reason we are often stone - blind to the subtle and ingenious ways in which meaning shifts in discourse . We fail to observe how the setting determines the mean- ing of each word in the passage ...
... meaning it has or should have . For this reason we are often stone - blind to the subtle and ingenious ways in which meaning shifts in discourse . We fail to observe how the setting determines the mean- ing of each word in the passage ...
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... meaning while the context is fluid and variable . Words follow the contours of thought ; they are in- fluenced by the company they keep ; they have a constant and immutable core of meaning . Even though words have a determinate range of ...
... meaning while the context is fluid and variable . Words follow the contours of thought ; they are in- fluenced by the company they keep ; they have a constant and immutable core of meaning . Even though words have a determinate range of ...
Contents
ARTICLES | 10 |
Heinrich PestalozziHis Life and Work Gustav E Mueller | 141 |
The Imperial Carp | 160 |
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