A blog aimed at A Level English Language students and teachers. Formerly based at St. Francis Xavier College, South London but now floating around cyberspace.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Discussing disgusting
There's a good piece here on the BBC News magazine site about the word disgust and its changing meanings and usage in English. As well as being a good case study of semantic change, it offers an interesting angle on how new analytical methods can be used to track language change, in this case Google n-grams and digital corpus searches.
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language change,
semantic change
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