The Word and Its Ways in English - 9780773549654

The Word and Its Ways in EnglishEssays on the Parts of Speech and Person\nAuthor(s): Walter Hirtle\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, Canada\nImprint: McGill-Queen's University Press\nISBN-13: 9780773549654, 978-0773549654\nSynopsis\nWords are the foundation, the building blocks of language. While an obvious and irreplaceable concept in the minds of non-linguists, the entry \""word\"" does not figure in the indexes of some books on linguistics. Why is there this neglect of the word among many contemporary linguists? Inspired by the work of the French linguist Gustave Guillaume and the last in a series of books, The Word and Its Ways in English is a study of the way the word is configured in English, and an attempt to discern its nature. Walter Hirtle presents the word as the smallest element of meaning in the brain. He also explores how thoughts in the mind of a speaker become a succession of spoken words that are translated back into meaning in the mind of .