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Lexical adjustment can be achieved by a pragmatic process of lexical modulation or ad hoc concept construction. While this process is claimed to be uniform, it is also commonly viewed as falling into two distinct types: narrowing and broadening. In the current paper, we take issue with this two-directional approach to ad hoc concept construction. We argue that it is based on a problematic line of argument as well as terminological misapplication, detracting from transparency and parsimony. In this light, the dual view of ad hoc concept construction needs to be replaced by a more coherent or integrative type of view that drops the distinction between narrowing and broadening or their synonymous terms. |
