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Although many articles, theoretical essays, and books have been written about metaphors, little effort has been made to investigate them systematically: as all of language is itself a metaphor (unless one believes in logomancy), one is continually confronted in the compilation of an ordinary dictionary with examples of semantic and linguistic changes (as well as amelioration, pejoration, etc.) that are tantamount to shifts of meaning that, loosely, could be said to be metaphoric.
A professor of linguistics at Georgetown University, she transformed the comparative study of male and female conversational patterns from a linguistic subdiscipline into a self-help movement.
After the canned, B-movie sloganeering of Ronald Reagan and the slapstick linguistic pratfalls of the Hollow Man, George Bush, it was (and is) a thrill to watch a president who not only thinks magnificently on his feet but gets a near-sexual charge out of doing so.
Chicano novelists and poets have consciously incorporated the use of pochismos in literary works to reinforce the precarious cultural and linguistic status of Chicanos in American society.
In any case, one hardly hears anything else today but these can forms, which have somehow become the fashion: It can happen , We could be wrong . What we are therefore observing is the loss of a valuable distinction, and in fact the slow extinction of the verb may/might , an extinction which in the linguistic world seems to me just as distressing as the loss of the elephant in the zoological world.
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