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LEXICAL AND CONCEPTUAL EVOLUTIONS AS TRANSFORMATIONAL VECTORS
LEXICAL AND CONCEPTUAL EVOLUTIONS AS TRANSFORMATIONAL VECTORS

Author(s): Grigore Alexandrescu
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: globalisation; NATO; transformation; conceptual changes

Summary/Abstract: Having a deep sight into Romanian language nature, a word vituoso, the national poet Mihai Eminescu analysed the importance of verbal expression in he life of a nation, conlcuding that the language is the "measure of civilisation". The lexica newest layer, neologisms and the concepts they are codifying, represents the level gauge in maintaining a language.

  • Issue Year: 14/2005
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 147-149
  • Page Count: 3
  • Language: English