Pragmatics in language change and lexical creativity
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Pragmatics in language change and lexical creativity
This essay examines language change and linguistic creativity as revealed by remodelling, especially as a source for euphemisms and euphemistic dysphemisms and as a function of verbal play. Within the scope of this essay, there are predominantly two ways in which novel terms and expressions are created leading to language change: formally through remodelling and semantically through figurative ...
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عنوان ژورنال: SpringerPlus
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2193-1801
DOI: 10.1186/s40064-016-1836-y