Regularity in Semantic Change - Couverture rigide

Traugott, Elizabeth Closs; Dasher, Richard B.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521583780 ISBN 13 : 9780521583787

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2001

Synopsis

Book by Traugott Elizabeth Closs Dasher Richard B

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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 studies, these have for the most part been based on data taken out of context. This book is a 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.

Revue de presse :

'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

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0521583780
• ISBN 13: 9780521583787
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 362