“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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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De Gruyter
2022-08-01
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Series: | Journal of World Languages |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/jwl-2022-0015 |