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While providing an excellent sense of the ways in which semantic change can be correlated with central narratives of historical change, Knapp also attends to quirky digressions from the logic of history -- for example, the fact that on the way from saintliness to frivolity, "silly" had a period of close association with sheep. The state education department agreed with the governor and no such semantic change is expected. If the affective powers of theatre can do this then meaning takes on the volatility of dramatic revisionism which indeed could be regarded as potentially radical, and contribute to the impulse for the dynamism of diachronic semantic change. |
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