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Article: Semantic changes within the domain boy in panchronic perspective.(Linguistics)
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- Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2004
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ABSTRACT
Traditionally considered a subject of historical linguistics studies par excellence--semantic Change--can be understood as conventionalisation of context-dependent modification of usage. Treated in this way, it does not necessarily imply reference to diachrony, but instead, may be approached as a timeless, universal and geographically boundary-free panchronic process; its constraints being delimited by cognitive mechanisms, especially that of conceptual blending. (2) This paper examines selected cases of changes in meaning pertaining to the semantic domain BOY and seeks the basis for their explanation in the blending operations of meaning construction. ...