Meaning of wordscape | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A landscape constructed from words or language; a word collage.
2. The whole lexicon (word-stock) of a language conceived as such a landscape or collage.
   broadly, figuratively

Examples

“[…] we wonder⟳ whether the phrase might not be some mis-translation or a misprint […], but no matter⟳, the phrase as is has a certain ring⟳ to it and bids fair to be a part of our wordscape for the foreseeable future. So we accept⟳ the reality of the notion and imagine⟳ that perhaps, like⟳ leprechauns, it survives only in Ireland.”

“[…] influence⟳ our perceptions increasingly as we grow⟳. In one sense⟳ we are very much what we say⟳, and how we interpret⟳ what is said to us. The world of words that mirrors the world of our experience⟳ is our wordscape. Passively accepting the wordscape at any point⟳ leads to a 'hardening of the categories', a freezing of the metaphors through which our experience⟳ is filtered. Constantly engaging and playing with language and […]”

“[…] all, however, have⟳ won their place⟳ in the book by passing into wider currency and exhibiting the staying power and the tendency to spawn byforms and allusions that suggest⟳ that they are and will remain⟳ part of the English-language wordscape.”

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