“I never get a thing that ain’t been used”: A diachronic corpus-based study of second-hand consumption

Second-hand consumption is often seen as a way of reducing one’s ecological footprint. In an attempt to find out how the representations of second-hand consumption in discourse have evolved over time, a corpus study of the word second-hand is carried out on the basis of the Corpus of Historical Amer...

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Main Author: Gilquin Gaëtanelle
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: De Gruyter 2022-08-01
Series:Journal of World Languages
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1515/jwl-2022-0015