Genericization refers to the process by which a brand name changes from specific in reference and representative of a single product by a particular company (e.g. Xerox photocopiers, or more recently, Google search engine) to a generic form representative of the entire semantic class to which that product belongs (a xerox, to xerox, or to google). This paper will give an overview of a theory first offered by Clankie (1999) to account for the changes seen in genericization, along with what has been learned in the ten years since the theory was first released.
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genericization, brand names, language change, actuation
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