Regularity in semantic change / Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Richard B. Dasher.
"This study of semantic change examines how new meanings arise through language use, especially the various ways in which speakers and writers experiment with uses of words and constructions in the flow of strategic interaction with addressees." "In the last few decades there has been...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2002.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in linguistics ;
97. |
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| Online Access: | Cambridge Books on Core Contributor biographical information |
| Summary: | "This study of semantic change examines how new meanings arise through language use, especially the various ways in which speakers and writers experiment with uses of words and constructions in the flow of strategic interaction with addressees." "In the last few decades there has been growing interest in exploring systemicities in semantic change from a number of perspectives including theories of metaphor, pragmatic inferencing, and grammaticalization. As in earlier studies, these have for the most part been based on data taken out of context. This book is the first detailed examination of semantic change from the perspective of historical pragmatics and discourse analysis. Drawing on extensive corpus data 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 conceptual metonymy and the associative flow of speech."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xx, 341 pages) : illustrations. |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511015828 9780511015823 0511054068 9780511054068 0511155875 9780511155871 0511175515 9780511175510 0511328931 9780511328930 0511486502 9780511486500 1280418745 9781280418747 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/CBO9780511486500 |