英语词汇学词义变化.pptxVIP

When a word loses its old meaning and comes to refer to something altogether different, the result is a change of word meaning. “… Change of meaning is a commonplace, and indeed it would appear to be fundamental in living language, …… almost every word we use today has a slightly different meaning from the one it had a century ago: and a century ago it had a slightly different meaning from the one it had a century before that.” _________ Quirk 1963:123-124;Causes of changes in word meaning 1. the world is changing 社会是语言的外部因素（索绪尔，1980：43），但是社会又不是一般的外部因素，而是客体世界中最