semantics

Explains the meanings and origins of more than 600 strange but common words.

"Introduces the concept of shades of word meanings through the telling of an original story"--Provided by publisher.

Introduces the concept of such descriptive words as hard, soft, rough, smooth, and others.

Word play book with windows to open to find reversed phrases with different meanings.

Introduces the principles of semantics, explains how language works, and how an understanding of semantics is useful in everyday life situations.

A dictionary of terms that were first coined in William Shakespeare's plays. Each entry explains the source of the word, how the word is used throughout history, and where each word appears in Shakespeare's works.

The author presents a comprehensive analysis of the political language of the political right, and maintains that their main objective is to move national politics steadily toward their conservative point of view.