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... language unit as we turn it from an idea to a thought , or to an effect . The unity is not in the mere language form , but in the relation of the form and its spirit . If language were mere form , then the material juncture of parts ...
... language unit as we turn it from an idea to a thought , or to an effect . The unity is not in the mere language form , but in the relation of the form and its spirit . If language were mere form , then the material juncture of parts ...
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... language . Man may and should write correctly by habit and reflex action ; but none but the inspired artist can give the happy stroke ; and to apply the rhetorical test requires insight and reflection . Can we not thus account for the ...
... language . Man may and should write correctly by habit and reflex action ; but none but the inspired artist can give the happy stroke ; and to apply the rhetorical test requires insight and reflection . Can we not thus account for the ...
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... language ; in the other back from language , through thought , to the purpose or effect of the discourse , - the first as synthesis , the second as analysis . Composi- tion and reading are simply applied rhetoric ; and both subjects ...
... language ; in the other back from language , through thought , to the purpose or effect of the discourse , - the first as synthesis , the second as analysis . Composi- tion and reading are simply applied rhetoric ; and both subjects ...
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... language forms expressing ideas , and sentences as lan- guage forms expressing thought , then a discourse may be defined as a language form expressing thought in the process of producing a definite change in some mind addressed . The ...
... language forms expressing ideas , and sentences as lan- guage forms expressing thought , then a discourse may be defined as a language form expressing thought in the process of producing a definite change in some mind addressed . The ...
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... language form has its unity in the fact that it expresses a unity of conscious- ness . The unity of consciousness in discourse is the moving impulse which shapes discourse to its end . While it has three elements , two are absorbed in ...
... language form has its unity in the fact that it expresses a unity of conscious- ness . The unity of consciousness in discourse is the moving impulse which shapes discourse to its end . While it has three elements , two are absorbed in ...
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