科技信息
科技信息
과기신식
SCIENTIFIC & TECHNICAL INFORMATION
2009年
8期
455-456
,共2页
social and linguistic factors influence semantic change and English vocabulary
this paper aims to analyze the social and linguistic factors' influence on semantic change in Eng～a vocabulary. Mainly speaking, the social factors include social development, social context, social class, national feeling, racial feeling, gender different, and social value, and lin-guistic factors consist of generalization, specialization, amelioration. pejoration, metaphor and metonymy.
