Semantics, pragmatics, relevance and genre: Chapter 9. Meaning change

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Metaphor, Metonymy and Lexicogenesis
Andrew Goatly
[Human Cognitive Processing 78] 2024
► pp. 226–267

Chapter 9
Meaning change

Article outline

9.1How and why meanings change
- 9.1.1Movement from pragmatics towards semantics
- 9.1.2Metaphor and metonymy as well-worn pragmatic pathways
9.2Relevance theory
- 9.2.1What is relevance? contextual effects and processing effort
- 9.2.2Relevance Theory, metaphor and metonymy
9.3Genre -relevance approach to metaphor and metonymy
- 9.3.1Situating relevance in social and cultural contexts
- 9.3.2Integrating Relevance Theory, schema theory and genre theory
- 9.3.3Genre theory: Field, tenor and mode
- 9.3.4Metonymy and metaphor in different genres
  - 9.3.4.1Risk, genre and metaphor/metonymy
  - 9.3.4.2Field and metonymic/metaphoric use and interpretation
  - 9.3.4.3Tenor, cultivating intimacy and conversational metaphor/metonymy
  - 9.3.4.4Tenor and emotional expression/suppression in different genres
    - Conversation
    - Poetry
    - Advertising
    - Public and political speech
    - Conversation, news and dysphemism, hyperbole and humour
  - 9.3.4.5Mode, textual purposes and metaphor/metonymy
  - 9.3.4.6Processing effort, cost and processing time
9.4Summary of the importance of Genre-Relevance
Notes

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