THE WAY OF THE WORD.
The article demonstrate the ubiquity of change at the lexical level of contemporary English. It mentions that words and expressions, however, can be risky because the change they have undergone is relatively recent. It also mentions about taxonomy of semantic change, containing the categories of met...
| Publicado en: | ETC: A Review of General Semantics Vol. 75; no. 3/4; pp. 278 - 286 |
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| Formato: | Artículo |
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Institute of General Semantics, Inc.
Jul-Oct2018
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| Sumario: | The article demonstrate the ubiquity of change at the lexical level of contemporary English. It mentions that words and expressions, however, can be risky because the change they have undergone is relatively recent. It also mentions about taxonomy of semantic change, containing the categories of metaphor, metonymy, and synecdoche. |
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