Current Trends in Diachronic Semantics and Pragmatics
Focuses on semantic and pragmatic change, its causes and mechanisms. This work gathers the papers that offer studies of language-specific cases of meaning change in particular notional domains. It includes case-studies covering central semantic domains such as concession, evidentiality, modality, ne...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Wagon Lane, Bingley
Bingley Emerald 2009
2009
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| Series: | Studies in pragmatics
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Add Tag | Summary: | Focuses on semantic and pragmatic change, its causes and mechanisms. This work gathers the papers that offer studies of language-specific cases of meaning change in particular notional domains. It includes case-studies covering central semantic domains such as concession, evidentiality, modality, negation, scalarity, subjectivity, and temporality. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 302 pages illustrations 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9781849506779 |
Semantics and pragmatics meaning in language and discourse