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Article: A holistic, socio-cognitive model of language and language change: a diachronic semasiological story of 'bedlam' (1).
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- Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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ABSTRACT
This paper (2) presents a holistic, socio-cognitive model of describing language and explaining its change. The primary domain of the study is lexical semantics, both synchronic and diachronic. The object of the study are lexical expressions, which, like language as such, are contemplated on three dimensions--intersubjective, interactive and cognitive. The object is approached from three perspectives, namely theoretical, synchronic and diachronic. The latter two standpoints are not neatly detachable, because language in its perpetual change is history in the making. The panchronic perspective, in turn, is indispensable for the advancement of a holistic, ...