Language evolution and the spread of ide
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Mike Thelwall; Liz Price
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Article
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2006
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract Word usage is of interest to linguists for its own sake as well as to social scientists and others who seek to track the spread of ideas, for example, in public debates over political decisions. The historical evolution of language can be analyzed with the tools of corpus linguistics th