English historical semantics / Christian Kay and Kathryn Allan.

By:

Kay, Christian [author.]

Contributor(s):

Allan, Kathryn [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Edinburgh textbooks on the English language. Advanced.Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (xi, 206 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780748644797
0748644792
9781474409124
1474409121

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: English historical semantics.DDC classification:

422 23

LOC classification:

PE1585 .K39 2015eb

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Contents:

1. Introduction -- 2. A brief history of the English lexicon -- 3. Categories of meaning -- 4. Tracing the development of individual words -- 5. How and why words change meaning -- 6. Larger categories -- 7. English colour terms: a case study -- 8. Language and culture -- 9. Metaphor and metonymy -- 10. The big picture and a look ahead.

Summary: An overview of the structural and cognitive approaches to English historical semantics. This guide gives students a solid grounding in the basic methodology of how to analyse corpus data to study new words entering the language or language change. It uses a number of case studies to provide insights into collocations, phraseology, metaphor and metonymy, syntactic structures, male and female language, and language change. Students will become proficient in the key concepts in semantic change by applying ideas from theoretical semantics to historical data. They will also cover recent work at the intersections between historical semantics and other disciplines. Focuses primarily on Lexical Semantics - the study of word meaning Offers a solid grounding in the basic methodology for corpus data analysis Features extended case studies on colour and kinship terms Includes exercises and suggestions for further reading in every chapter

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-199) and index.

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An overview of the structural and cognitive approaches to English historical semantics. This guide gives students a solid grounding in the basic methodology of how to analyse corpus data to study new words entering the language or language change. It uses a number of case studies to provide insights into collocations, phraseology, metaphor and metonymy, syntactic structures, male and female language, and language change. Students will become proficient in the key concepts in semantic change by applying ideas from theoretical semantics to historical data. They will also cover recent work at the intersections between historical semantics and other disciplines. Focuses primarily on Lexical Semantics - the study of word meaning Offers a solid grounding in the basic methodology for corpus data analysis Features extended case studies on colour and kinship terms Includes exercises and suggestions for further reading in every chapter

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