Word power
2024/11/10 by Guy Dove · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · #Lexicography and Language Studies
paper · doi:10.1080/09515089.2024.2426633
openalex publication_date 2024/11/10 · openalex created_date 2024/11/11 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/14
Abstract
Anna Borghi’s new book, The Freedom of Words: Abstractness and the Power of Language, is an ambitious attempt to rethink the importance of language to human thought. She begins with a simple enough...
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