Document Type
Presentation
Abstract
Earlier studies showed some word pairs in health discourse being conflated. If some polysemes are not recognized as fully separate senses, is there a pattern of use showing if speakers feel that experiencing one sense creates the occurrence of the second sense?
Disciplines
Linguistics | Social and Behavioral Sciences
Publication Date
7-20-2011
Language
English
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Stvan, Laurel Smith, "Sugar Makes You Sweet: Polysemy and Cultural Beliefs about Causation" (2011). Linguistics & TESOL Faculty Publications & Presentations. 25.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/linguistics_tesol_facpubs/25