What is it about?
Culture influences the direction of meaning change.
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Why is it important?
It puts language change in its social and cultural context.
Perspectives
It shows that language change must be explained in terms of both language internal factors and language external or cultural factors.
Prof. Zhuo Jing-Schmidt
University of Oregon
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This page is a summary of: From positivity to possibility, propriety and necessity, Chinese Language and Discourse An International and Interdisciplinary Journal, June 2010, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/cld.1.1.03jin.
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