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Regularity in Semantic Change

Regularity in Semantic Change

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Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, Book 97

Linguistics

ISBN10: 052161791X
ISBN13: 9780521617918
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Mar 24 2005
Pages: 364
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.12 Depth: 8.94
Language: English
This new and important study of semantic change examines the various ways in which new meanings arise through language use, especially the ways in which speakers and writers experiment with uses of words and constructions. Drawing on extensive research from over a thousand years of English and Japanese textual history, Traugott and Dasher show that most changes in meaning originate in and are motivated by the associative flow of speech and conceptual metonymy.

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