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- noun The love of
words andword games .
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Examples
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We lost the great William F. Buckley last week, who was as famous for his gracious hospitality as for his logophilia.
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We lost the great William F. Buckley this week, who was as famous for his gracious hospitality as for his logophilia.
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Furthermore, this localised logophilia diverts us from a much graver change, which affects the entire linguistic ecosystem.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Furthermore, this localised logophilia diverts us from a much graver change, which affects the entire linguistic ecosystem.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Furthermore, this localised logophilia diverts us from a much graver change, which affects the entire linguistic ecosystem.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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I want to ask not so much about 'poetic' diction, abstract formulations, the logophilia Jeffrey recently blogged about, but also about the _poetics_ of the work in terms of what effect the language of the writing is having on language -- what is the language itself doing and how -- who or what does it 'speak' and what discourses does it register in, circulate, repeat, cite, etc.
In the Middle 2009
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