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... expression , foregrounded because of its newness , is immediately automatized in a scientific treatise by an exact definition of its meaning . Foregrounding is , of course , common in the standard language , for instance , in ...
... expression , foregrounded because of its newness , is immediately automatized in a scientific treatise by an exact definition of its meaning . Foregrounding is , of course , common in the standard language , for instance , in ...
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... expression made by one unfamiliar with a language , matters of syntax and elementary vocabulary . But poor expression in the wider sense cannot be reduced to this . The nature of words is against it their constant tendency to mean . It ...
... expression made by one unfamiliar with a language , matters of syntax and elementary vocabulary . But poor expression in the wider sense cannot be reduced to this . The nature of words is against it their constant tendency to mean . It ...
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... expression and line of content , which has given such fine results in structural linguistics . One might also effect the analysis of both chains separately , as glossematics recommends , or try to reduce as far as possible the system of ...
... expression and line of content , which has given such fine results in structural linguistics . One might also effect the analysis of both chains separately , as glossematics recommends , or try to reduce as far as possible the system of ...
Contents
Vowel and Consonant Patterns in Poetry 1953 David I Masson | 3 |
Some Parallels and Contrasts | 19 |
Some English Sonnets 1960 | 33 |
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