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John Rupert Firth on Writing

1890–1960 England

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The complete meaning of a word is always contextual, and no study of meaning apart from context can be taken seriously.

You shall know a word by the company it keeps.

It is not easy to determine what are the units of speech. Some would say speech sounds, others phonemes... The general opinion is, however, that words, not phones or phonemes or phoneme systems, are the units of speech.

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