Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 6British Academy, 1976 - Humanities |
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Page 213
... sound of a spoken word irre- spective of its meaning . That is to say , the character which had come to be the symbol of a particular spoken word ( i . e . of a certain sequence of sounds expressing an idea ) was now allowed to denote ...
... sound of a spoken word irre- spective of its meaning . That is to say , the character which had come to be the symbol of a particular spoken word ( i . e . of a certain sequence of sounds expressing an idea ) was now allowed to denote ...
Page 215
... sound of each word , and then translating the sound into meaning . In many cases the habit of much reading has established for us a direct association between the aspect of a written word and its meaning . I have sometimes tried , after ...
... sound of each word , and then translating the sound into meaning . In many cases the habit of much reading has established for us a direct association between the aspect of a written word and its meaning . I have sometimes tried , after ...
Page 216
... sound - but which are valued because they make the mean- ing clearer . Such are our use of initial capitals to distinguish proper names and the like ; quotation marks ; the apostrophe used to show that a sound which is part of our ...
... sound - but which are valued because they make the mean- ing clearer . Such are our use of initial capitals to distinguish proper names and the like ; quotation marks ; the apostrophe used to show that a sound which is part of our ...
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