# Changes in word meaning and folk theories of reasonable mappings

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The piece argues that a linguist's account of political word change participates in frame negotiation while drawing authority from expert status.

Blog post · Hermeneutic Heretic · 2 September 2007

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## About this item

- Type: Blog post
- Published: 2 September 2007
- Published in: Hermeneutic Heretic
- Language: English

Topics: semantics, language-change, political-discourse, science.

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