Linguistic Detectives. How to Understand Text. Book 3

"How to Understand Text" is a collection of fascinating tales about how to read literary texts in order to see all the richness of meanings embedded by the writer or poet. The author of the book is the outstanding domestic linguist Nikolai Maksimovich Shansky, who tells simply and interestingly about the texts of Pushkin and Pasternak, Lermontov and Mayakovsky with his characteristic elegance and ease. You will find unusual and interesting tasks for word analysis, as well as control questions and answers for self-checking. The stories can be read in any order. Explore the stories from the lives of words, investigate their captivating transformations – discoveries await you on every page!