Meaning has been given different definitions in the past. Is meaning simply the set of associations that a word evokes, is the meaning of a word defined by the images that its users connect to it? So ...

Lexical semantics can be defined as ‘the study of meaning’, therefore semanticists are interested in the lexical meaning of words rather than grammatical meaning. It is not so much a practical topic ...

Bleaching as a type of semantic change is often mentioned in works on grammaticalization, but very few studies focus on how bleaching occurs. The literature on hyperbole as a figure of speech notes ...