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This book discusses the concepts, types, models, and patterns of
Japan's Hometown Tax Donation Payment system, to provide a clear
picture of this newly developed unique and innovative fund-raising
tool used by municipalities. It also sheds light on the influences
that reciprocal gifts provided by each municipality to donors have
on local economies by reviewing empirical works and surveys
targeting local business owners and local financial institutions. A
distinguishing feature of the book is that it introduces a new
social finance mechanism that is unique to the Japanese market and
could provide policy implications for small and medium-sized
enterprises (SMEs) as well as regional development. Furthermore,
the book explores the efficacy of the demand-pull approach to
support-strengthening SMEs, especially in rural areas. Finally, the
book identifies some lessons learned from the system with a view
toward advancing research on this phenomenon and making the system
efficient and sustainable. As a whole, the book can provide ample
benefits to novices, academics, researchers, and policymakers
interested in Hometown Tax Donation Payment, an innovative social
finance tool. This is an open access book.
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.
This new and important study of semantic change examines the various ways in which new meanings arise through language use, especially the ways in which speakers and writers experiment with uses of words and constructions. Drawing on extensive research 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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