Style stands still.

Style | June 22, 2003| | Copyright

When I began this study, I wondered what a linguist might have to say that would be appropriate and interesting to readers of a journal with a name like Style. In this context, it quickly became obvious to me that my own ordinary understanding of what was meant by style was deficient--deficient enough, anyway, that I decided to perform an act of linguistic research: I looked up style in the dictionary.

And thereby I found my topic--or rather my topics, because there are several senses to which I was led, piecemeal and seriatim. Looking at the very first sense of ...

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