- Paperback: 349 pages
- Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc; Revised edition edition (16 May 1985)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0195204697
- ISBN-13: 978-0195204698
- Product Dimensions: 13.3 x 1.8 x 19.7 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 687,403 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Details the histories of one hundred-fifty-five words that have acquired cultural and social significance, noting specific meanings, extent and intensity of uses, and related issues and contexts.
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Aesthetic first appeared in English in C19, and was not common before mC19. Read the first page
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a unique book
14 July 2001
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one of its kind; it is not a dictionary (not even a technical one); it is not a book on the etimology of words; it will hardly improve your talking skills. Rather, it is a fascinating book on the constant change of culture and how this is reflected in everyday (and not so everyday) words of the English language. You will walk away humble, overwhelmed by the richness and the violence of culture's impact on words.
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An essential resource
29 Aug 2005
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Williams has a point of view that readers must take into account, but perhaps all lexicographers should be as overt about their assumptions as he is in this eminently readable historical glossary of the terms that shape Western thought. It's a good idea when you are writing anything to stop at some point and look up Williams' account of a few of the words that you have been using -- it's guaranteed to focus the mind.
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9 May 2011
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This book is extremely helpful for stopping to ponder what we really mean by words we tend to toss around thoughtlessly: for example Class, Culture, Community. Williams takes a revealing and amazingly well researched historical approach by considering etymological word origins, and how the meanings of words change over time. He also considers how words are used both popularly and academically. This work is especially appropriate for those of us overly-analytical types who like to pick apart and unpack concepts as a matter of course, but the text might feel a little laboured and overly cerebral to the less theoretically minded. I highly recommend this as a much needed reference for graduate students and professional academics in the social sciences, or to very dedicated upper level undergraduates. Unfortunately, the more recent "New Keywords" is not nearly so well done - I think in part because it has multiple authors and ends up feeling a little uneven. It is understandable that it not be able to quite stand up to the original, as Raymond Williams was a genius in his own class.
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