Lexical Competition and Change: A Corpus-Assisted Investigation of Gambling and Gaming in the Past Centuries

• Published in: SAGE open Vol. 10; no. 3
• Main Authors: Li, Longxing, Huang, Chu-Ren, Wang, Vincent Xian
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.07.2020; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC; SAGE Publishing
• Subjects: Behavior Change; Competition; Dialect Studies; Gambling; Games; collective human behavior changes; lexical variations; socio-cultural change; Gricean maxims; big data linguistics

This article investigates the interplay of lexical competition and socio-historical events through a close examination of the use of gambling and gaming based on large-scale synchronic and diachronic corpora. We first set the background for comparison through a synchronic study of the collocational...