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A method is described in which protein fibres, natural or artificial, present in a mixture with non-protein fibres, are dissolved by means of alkaline sodium hypochlorite solution, and the residual non-protein fibres are collected and weighed. No other fibres, with the exceptions of raw cotton and cellulose acetate, lose appreciably in weight in the reagent under the prescribed conditions. Raw cotton loses about 3 per cent of its weight in the solvent, and this loss can be allowed for by the use of a correction factor. The method is not recommended for mixtures containing cellulose acetate. The accuracy of the method is demonstrated by analyses of a large number of laboratory-prepared mixtures and spun blends.

13—The Analysis of Mixtures of Protein and Non-Protein Fibres by means of Sodium Hypochlorite

Appropriation, gentrification, and colonisation originated as precise technical terms. This study analyses examples of each word in recent mainstream online news texts, and demonstrates that all three have undergone semantic change, particularly metaphorisation and generalisation (cf. Geeraerts [2010: 26]). Language users tend to select and emphasise shared semantic features of each, to the exclusion of other semantic features, such that the terms are in some circumstances, for many language users, interchangeable. I provide factual evidence (cf. Wallis [2019]) or attestations (cf. Zgusta [1971]) of these terms’ newly emerging semantic relationships, and I present evidence for decolonisation as a preferred contradictory antonym to all three (cf. Murphy [2010]). I analyse examples in which language users actively and critically employ these terms alongside each other, defining or negotiating meanings of each; and I explore possibilities for alternation in some shared attested syntagmatic combinations, such as the appropriation, gentrification, or (de)colonisation of history. I discuss mechanisms of change, with reference to the philological tradition (Sperber [1923], [1938]; Nerlich [1992]), structuralism (Ullmann [1963]), and cognitive semantics (Blank [1999]), and propose a process whereby affective charge motivates semantic generalisation in precise technical vocabulary when it begins to be used in contentious, fraught public debate.

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Appropriation, Gentrification, Colonisation: Newly Synonymous?

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The Semantic Development of Verhältnis@@@The Semantic Development of Verhaltnis

Etymology of the Verb Sock