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The Origins and Development of the English Language
Politician has had a downhill development, or pejoration (from Latin pejor 'worse'
). So has knave (OE cnafa), which used to mean simply 'boy'—it is cognate with
German Knabe, which retains the earlier meaning. It came to mean 'serving boy'
...
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Language History: An Introduction
PEJORATION AND MELIORATION 64. Words will gain or lose negative or
positive connotations with or without changes in other semantic features. These
are sometimes treated as special phenomena— pejoration ('getting worse') and ...
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A Biography of the English Language
Amelioration and Pejoration Examples of amelioration and pejoration are harder
to pinpoint, partly because we cannot always be sure how pejorative or
nonpejorative a word was, partly because much of the vocabulary of a language
is not ...
C.M. Millward, Mary Hayes, 2011
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English Words: History and Structure
Pejoration/degeneration. A development of the meaning in the opposite direction,
which is perhaps more frequent, is called pejoration (from Lat. pejor 'worse').
Hussy used to mean 'housewife.' Demagogue in ancient Greece meant 'a leader
...
Donka Minkova, Robert P. Stockwell, 2009
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An Introduction to Historical Linguistics
11.1. BASIC. MEANING. CHANGES. 11.1.1. Amelioration. and. Pejoration. Words
can change their connotation over time. Some words acquire positive
connotations, while others acquire negative ones. The word silly, for example,
originally ...
Terry Crowley, Claire Bowern, 2010
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Understanding Language Change
7.2.3.2 Pejoration and amelioration The attitude of speakers and hearers to
particular words may also change, as the value assigned to the referents of
words alters. Pejoration, a downward move in evaluative attitude, is frequently
due to ...
April M. S. McMahon, 1994
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Language Change: Progress Or Decay?
Knave illustrated the opposite, pejoration, moving from 'male child' to 'male
servant' to 'rascal'. Or take the word clothes, once the plural of cloth. This has
extended its range to cover garments made from wool and other fabrics. The
word ...
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The History of English: A Student's Guide
Conversely, pejoration involves a downward shift in evaluative attitude, and has
occurred in English with words such as silig 'blessed', which is quite different from
its modern counterpart silly, and vulgar, which today has negative associations ...
Gurmit Singh, Ishtla Singh, 2013
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English Vocabulary Elements
The opposite of melioration, pejoration, is more common. Silly has had a history
almost the opposite of nice: it originally meant 'blessed'. Pejoration often goes
hand in hand with euphemism, the process of using a new word to refer to an
item ...
Keith Denning, Brett Kessler, William Ronald Leben, 2007
In Basque, urdin came to be restricted to 'blue' with the borrowing of berde 'green'
and gris 'grey' from Spanish (verde, gris). More examples are discussed in Fritz (
1998: 139f.). 8.6 Melioration and pejoration As a special kind of restriction, ...
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LETTER: Seeing red over policy
... review could see SA lose on trade benefits, July 21) is a pejoration of our country's free-trade policies and a hindrance to normal business. «BDlive, Lip 15»
2015: Judiciary, Lawyers And Law Schools At The Precipice
The civility symposium brought together lawyers, judges, and professors from all over the United States to discuss the pejoration of the noble ... «Law360, Sty 15»
The CPP's Greenstreet hurts feelings but opens eyes
But their pejoration is vain. I wish to advise President Mahama and his team to see Greenstreet's comments as a precursor to the issues that ... «Vibe Ghana, Gru 14»
Hard time accepting "Redskins" as a slur
In general, scholars agree that the term was originally neutral, but many say it has become negative through a process called “pejoration. «The Elkhart Truth, Gru 14»
Nothing wrong with the word “feminism”
Linguists refer to this process as “pejoration.” “If a word that refers to something always appears in sentences where that thing is framed ... «Raw Story, Lis 14»
Why We Have So Many Terms For 'People Of Color'
Linguists refer to this process as "pejoration." "If a word that refers to something always appears in sentences where that thing is framed ... «NPR, Lis 14»
Placing the Sardar Ahead of Indira
It is a wonder that such expressions and such semi-disguised pejoration are never deployed for Indira and her family. This is not to suggest that ... «NDTV, Paz 14»
Is The Stealth Genre Dying?
There's a process in English Language called pejoration, whereby a positive word gradually becomes negative over time (or through extended ... «n3rdabl3, Paz 14»
Why there are too many women doctors, women MPs, and women …
... as an adjective is “somewhere between a hypercorrection and pejoration, plus a dollop of condescending sexism masquerading as chivalry. «The Guardian, Paz 14»
Terror in every bomb
Words like "demagogue, awful" and "artificial" are instances of the process, "pejoration", where meaning gets downgraded. The 17th century ... «Chandigarh Tribune, Maj 14»
