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Regularity in Semantic Change - Richard B. Dasher,Elizabeth Close Traugott

English
2011-03-15
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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 t ... Full description

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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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Author Richard B. Dasher, Elizabeth Close Traugott
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Release year 2011
Cover type Hardcover
EAN 9780521583787
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