Regularity in Semantic Change

by Richard B. Dasher and Elizabeth Closs Traugott

Book Overview

This 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. 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052161791X
• ISBN13: 9780521617918
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.9"