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Bartsch, Renate. 1984. Norms, tolerance, lexical change, and context-dependence of meaning. Journal of Pragmatics 8 (3) : 367–393.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
semantic change | semantic variability
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Annotation

The overall goal of communication, understanding, is said to control semantic norms and tolerance towards them. This makes semantic change possible.