ENGLISH

Regularity in Semantic Change

By Elizabeth Closs Traugott , Richard B. Dasher

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2001
ISBN
0521583780, 9780521583787, 052161791X, 9780521617918, 9780511015823
LCC
P325.5.H57 T73 2002
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1553922 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 97
Pages
363\363
Topic
Education
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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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