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This summarization is about Rudi Keller's book, "On Language Change: The Invisible Hand in Language." Keller argues that language change can be explained by the invisible hand, or the principle that "the market does not work in a vacuum." He uses examples from English to illustrate his point.
In the twentieth century paradigms of linguistics have largely left language change to one side. Rudi Keller's book is an exciting contribution to linguistic philosophy becuase it puts language change back on the linguistics agenda and demonstrates that, far from being a remote mystery, it can and should be explained.
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