Chapter 10
Regularity in semantic change
A view from a sociocultural perspective
Article outline
- 10.0Introduction
- 10.1Basic approaches to the analysis of semantic change in cognitive linguistics and historical linguistics
- 10.2The large-scale semantic changes and sociocognitive processes underpinning them
- 10.3Sociocultural factors influencing semantic change in modern language
- 10.3.1An interplay between an idiolect and general language as a trigger for semantic change
- 10.3.2Unification-separation request as a motivation for semantic change
- 10.4Final remarks
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Notes