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This book elucidates the nature of the semantics / pragmatics distinction in both synchrony and diachrony and proposes a definition of semantics and pragmatics that is orthogonal to the question of truth-conditionality. A corollary aim of the study is to propose an account of how and why erstwhile pragmatically-determined elements of meaning may, in the course of time, become semanticized.

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Reviewed by Gudrun Held (University of Salzburg) for the Journal of Historical Pragmatics Maj-Britt Mosegaard Hansen - presents a volume that, in my opinion, surpasses and deepens all the work done so far in this area (p1). Hansen's book is an admirable study which proves a high level of linguistic know-how, a good critical handling of the referred literature, a comprehensible elaboration of the notions, a convincing argumentation structure and a clear description style (p3).

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