A view from a sociocultural perspective: Chapter 10. Regularity in semantic change

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Chapter 10
Regularity in semantic change

Published online: 17 January 2024

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
Notes