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... language . Williams argues that language is not something static that pictures the world ; rather it allows for flexibility and creativity and itself plays a part in the creation of new social meanings . Language is thus not just a tool ...
... language . Williams argues that language is not something static that pictures the world ; rather it allows for flexibility and creativity and itself plays a part in the creation of new social meanings . Language is thus not just a tool ...
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... language ( 1975 , p . 150 ) . It would , however , be a grave mistake to take the author at his word even here ... language is put into operation by an author rather than that the author controls the language . This approach has been ...
... language ( 1975 , p . 150 ) . It would , however , be a grave mistake to take the author at his word even here ... language is put into operation by an author rather than that the author controls the language . This approach has been ...
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... language of Shakespeare and Milton belongs to a stage of history in which words were in natural control of experienced life . The writer of today tends to use far fewer and simpler words , both because mass culture has watered down the ...
... language of Shakespeare and Milton belongs to a stage of history in which words were in natural control of experienced life . The writer of today tends to use far fewer and simpler words , both because mass culture has watered down the ...
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The sociology of literature | 24 |
The sociology of the author | 50 |
The novel realism and modernism | 64 |
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