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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'How does it come about that linguistic expressions change their meanings over time, or, to be more precise, that speakers start using established linguistic expressions with novel meanings? What is the nature of semantic change, and - more importantly - can we generalize about different instantiations of semantic change not only within individual languages but also cross-linguistically? The book under review, by Elizabeth Closs Traugott and Richard B. Dasher, provides bold answers to such big questions.' Journal of Linguistics
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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 words and constructions in the flow of strategic interaction with addressees. 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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In this book we show that there are predictable paths for semantic change across different conceptual structures and domains of language function. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
addressee honorific function, conceptualized speech event, honorific lexemes, person subject referents, predicate honorifics, serialized verb, referent honorifics, semasiological change, invited inferencing, addressee honorifics, referent box, deictic ground, epistemic parentheticals, locutionary verbs, historical discourse analysis, social deixis, pragmatic markers, honorific meaning, deontic meaning, correlated paths, speech act verbs, deontic necessity, speech act expressions, invited inferences, epistemic meaning Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Helsinki Corpus, United Press Intl, Enkyobon Heike Monogatari, Genji Monogatari, Konjaku Monogatari-shuu, Kageroo Nikki, Princess Kaguya, Taketori Monogatari, Yoshiko Matsumoto, American English, Bella Johnson, British National Corpus, Vulgar Latin, Auwera Forthcoming, British English, Free Indirect Style, King Alfred, Lord Chief Justice, Manfred Krug, Miss Jarrova, The American Heritage Dictionary, Universal Grammar New!
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In this book we show that there are predictable paths for semantic change across different conceptual structures and domains of language function. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
addressee honorific function, conceptualized speech event, honorific lexemes, person subject referents, predicate honorifics, serialized verb, referent honorifics, semasiological change, invited inferencing, addressee honorifics, referent box, deictic ground, epistemic parentheticals, locutionary verbs, historical discourse analysis, social deixis, pragmatic markers, honorific meaning, deontic meaning, correlated paths, speech act verbs, deontic necessity, speech act expressions, invited inferences, epistemic meaning Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Helsinki Corpus, United Press Intl, Enkyobon Heike Monogatari, Genji Monogatari, Konjaku Monogatari-shuu, Kageroo Nikki, Princess Kaguya, Taketori Monogatari, Yoshiko Matsumoto, American English, Bella Johnson, British National Corpus, Vulgar Latin, Auwera Forthcoming, British English, Free Indirect Style, King Alfred, Lord Chief Justice, Manfred Krug, Miss Jarrova, The American Heritage Dictionary, Universal Grammar New!
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