How words matter: A psycholinguistic argument for meaning revision

IF 1.8 3区 心理学 Q1 LINGUISTICS
Mind & Language Pub Date : 2023-11-14 DOI:10.1111/mila.12494
Steffen Koch
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Abstract

Linguistic interventions aim to change our linguistic practices. A commonly discussed type of linguistic intervention is meaning revision, which seeks to associate existing words with new or revised meanings. But why does retaining old words matter so much? Why not instead introduce new words to express the newly defined meanings? Drawing on relevant psycholinguistic research, this paper develops an empirically motivated, general, and practically useful pro tanto reason to retain rather than replace the original word during the process of conceptual improvement.
词语的重要性:意义修正的心理语言学论证
语言干预旨在改变我们的语言实践。一种常被讨论的语言干预类型是意义修正,它试图将现有的单词与新的或修订的意义联系起来。但为什么保留旧词如此重要呢?为什么不引入新词来表达新定义的含义呢?在相关的心理语言学研究的基础上,本文提出了在概念改进过程中保留而不是取代原词的经验动机、一般的和实际有用的支持理由。
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