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Regularity in Semantic Change

Traugott, Elizabeth Closs, Dasher, Richard B.

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Regularity in Semantic Change

This new and important 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. Like 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 the associative flow of speech and conceptual metonymy.

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Title of ebook: Regularity in Semantic Change
ISBN: 9780511038822
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Internet download file size: 1999 kb
Released online for download: 12-19-1997
Author of eBook: Traugott, Elizabeth Closs
Author of eBook: Dasher, Richard B.