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Publication details [#61761]

Clark, Billy. 2016. Relevance theory and language change. Lingua 175,176 : 139–153.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language change | metarepresentation | pragmatics | procedural semantics | relevance theory

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

Metarepresentation, lexical pragmatics and procedural meaning studies may each notably add to explain semantic change. Future relevance theory (RT) and language change research might borrow phrases and notions yet not the overall RT frame.