This important study of semantic change examines how new meanings
arise through language use, especially the various ways in which
speakers and writers experiment with uses of words and
constructions in the flow of strategic interaction with addressees.
There has been growing interest in exploring systemicities in
semantic change from a number of perspectives including theories of
metaphor, pragmatic inferencing, and grammaticalization. Like
earlier studies, these have for the most part been based on data
taken out of context. This book is a detailed examination of
semantic change from the perspective of historical pragmatics and
discourse analysis. Drawing on extensive corpus data from over a
thousand years of English and Japanese textual history, Traugott
and Dasher show that most changes in meaning originate in and are
motivated by the associative flow of speech and conceptual
metonymy.
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