Concept Development and Word Meanings

Concept Development and Word Meanings
By B.D. Roe|E.P. Ross
Pearson Allyn Bacon Prentice Hall

Words are just oral or written symbols for concepts that we have developed through various avenues of experience. The relationship of the words that stand for the concepts to the concepts themselves is arbitrary. A word means what a group of people agree that it means. That is why words are easily added to our language through coinage of new terms and why words that have been a part of our language for years change in meaning over time or add new meanings.


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