Semantic history is an aspect of cultural history.

Evidence

The whole of language is a continuous process of metaphor, and the history of semantics is an aspect of the history of culture; language is at the same time a living thing and a museum of fossils of life and civilisations. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1599

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core definition: language as simultaneously living and fossilized — the two-layer model that grounds Gramsci’s whole theory of ideological sediment.
• DEEPTHINKING: This one sentence packs a micro-theory of cultural transmission — language as both active practice and archaeological record — worth keeping verbatim.
• XREF: connects to: Intellectual and idea history is one part of wider social transformation studies — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 27