Regularity in Semantic Change (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521583787)

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.

Author: Elizabeth Close Traugott, Richard B. Dasher
ISBN-10: 0521583780
ISBN-13: 9780521583787
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/20/2001
Pages: 362
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.39w x 1.03d