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Publication details [#2550]

Vitale, Geoffrey. 1995. Words in context. Paris: Dunod. 172 pp.

Publication type

Monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

context=socio-political context | interpretation | synonym

Main ISBN

2040169288

Abstract

This book deals with what the author terms "parasynonyms". His approach is to suggest that synonyms as such do not exist, that indeed when two words become dangerously similar in interpretation, one of them will tend to drop into disuse, or be preempted for a narrower semantic use.

Source : D. Slote

Reviewed by

Slote, Daniel. 1997. Review of Words in context. In Seleskovitch, Danica, ed. L'interprétation en langues des signes [Sign interpreting]. Special issue of Meta 42 (3): 593–595.