Book Details
Title: Regularity in Semantic Change
Authors: Elizabeth Closs Traugott & Richard B. Dasher
Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, 97
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge; December 2001
Level: Advanced Monograph
Keywords: semantic change English, Japanese, conceptual metonymy, association
ISBN: 0521583780, English, Hardcover, 362 pages
Publisher's Abstract:
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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Traugott, Elizabeth Closs & Richard B. Dasher. 2001. Regularity in Semantic Change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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