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The Social Life of Words Cakes THE LANDMARK SECOND NOVEL FROMHow do words come to take on new connotations in everyday usage? The Social Life of Words: A Historical Approach explores how English words take on the social properties of the people who use them. Written in an engaging narrative style, this entertaining text matches up theory with social history and biography to find out which kind of people used what kind of word, where and when, addressing the ways in which class, age, race, region, gender,