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Keywords

A Vocabulary of Culture and Society

By Raymond Williams

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| Paperback | 9780195204698

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Now revised to include new words and updated essays, Keywords focuses on the sociology of language, demonstrating how the key words we use to understand our society take on new meanings and how these changes reflect the political bent and values of society.

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  • Compacted Doctrines

    The book is continually interesting; never more so, from my point of view, than when it is plainly wrong; but it is usually right, I could not deny. More than 100 familiar words, usually with some derivatives and opposites thrown in, are examined for ... (read full critics)

    nybooks published on Tue, 24 Aug 2010

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  • Reflection of social changes in vocabulary

    This book was the starting reference material in a broadening course about cultural policies and community. It serves as an introduction of the course by defining the scope of the course. It is easy to read and contains enough information to get me thinking. However, it may be out of date - it wa ... (continue)

    This book was the starting reference material in a broadening course about cultural policies and community. It serves as an introduction of the course by defining the scope of the course. It is easy to read and contains enough information to get me thinking. However, it may be out of date - it was published more than twenty years ago - and may not cover the current situation in Hong Kong.

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 286 Pages
  • Edition: Rev Sub
  • ISBN-10: 0195204697
  • ISBN-13: 9780195204698
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Pub date: May 16, 1985
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 903 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover and Others
  • In other languages: other languages 繁體書
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