Excerpt from Meaning and Change of Meaning: With Special Reference to the English Language<br><br>The Position of Semasiology in Relation to Linguistics and Psychology. Semasiology is the study of linguistic meanings. The term meanings is here taken as denoting certain elements of the mental events occurring in connection with words in the minds of people think ing, speaking, writing, hearing or reading the words. The study of meanings, as of all psychic phenomena, belongs to psychology.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.