Diachronic Cognitive Pragmatics:Theoretical Framework and Analytical Path
Given the limitations of cognitive pragmatics,this paper proposes Diachronic Cognitive Pragmatics integrating diachrony,cognition and pragmatics.It is intended to expound the entrenchment-conventionalization process of pragmatic meanings from a diachronic perspective,revealing the paths of changes in word meanings.The paper argues that utterance-token meanings evolve into utterance-type meanings through entrenchment,and utterance-type meanings evolve into new coded meanings through conventionalization.Different types of meanings are not easy to be distinguished,as a result of the frequency of repeated usage.This study sheds new light on the study of polysemy of words.
Diachronic Cognitive Pragmaticssemantic changeentrenchmentconventionalizationrepeated usage frequency
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