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Publication details [#28290]

Wierzbicka, Anna. 2002. Right and wrong: From philosophy to everyday discourse. Discourse Studies 4 (2) : 225–252.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

historical linguistics | language and culture | meaning | metalanguage | uses of language

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

1461-4456

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper explores the changes in use and meaning of the word 'right' in English over the centuries and links these semantic and pragmatic developments with historical phenomena such as Puritanism, British empiricism, the Enlightenment and the rise of democracy.