Back in full force with 7 all-new titles, DK Readers allow beginning readers to progress from easy-to-follow stories with simple sentences and word repetition to more sophisticated storylines, sentence structure, and vocabulary.
Product Description: For years Richard Hoggart has observed the oddity of a common speech habit: the fondness for employing ready-made sayings and phrasings whenever we open our mouths, a disinclination to form our own sentences "from scratch", unless that becomes inescapable. Here, he is interested in more specific questions.
Roget's Superthesaurus is a perennial favorite among writers, and this revised third edition has more than 1,000 new and expanded entries. Users of this treasury of words will be able to find the perfect synonym--or antonym--to give their writing preciseness and color. To help pinpoint le bon mot, this book also offers: *The popular "Word Find" reverse dictionary *Tips for vocabulary building *Clear sample sentences that clarify meanings *Famous quotations that can be used as synonyms
With more features than any other word reference, Roget's Superthesaurus is a must-have for every writer's desk!
It is a near truism of philosophy of language that sentences are prior to words. Sentences, it is said, are what we believe, assert, and argue for; uses of them constitute our evidence in semantics; only they stand in inferential relations, and are true or false. Sentences are, indeed, the only things that fundamentally have meaning. Does this near truism really hold of human languages? Robert Stainton, drawing on a wide body of evidence, argues forcefully that speakers can and do use mere words, not sentences, to communicate complete thoughts.
Back in full force with 7 all-new titles, DK Readers allow beginning readers to progress from easy-to-follow stories with simple sentences and word repetition to more sophisticated storylines, sentence structure, and vocabulary.
