Browsing Linguistics by Subject "Language production"
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Language change is wicked: Semantic and social meaning of a polysemous adjective
As a result of an ameliorative shift-to-opposite, the polysemous adjective wicked is an auto-antonym, having two senses opposite in meaning, that is, ‘evil’ and ‘good’. We discuss two studies which explore the social life ...