TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kay,Christian
AU  - Allan,Kathryn
TI  - English historical semantics
T2  - Edinburgh textbooks on the English language. Advanced
SN  - 9780748644797
AV  - PE1585 .K39 2015eb
U1  - 422 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Edinburgh
PB  - Edinburgh University Press
KW  - English language
KW  - Semantics, Historical
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - Etymology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - General
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-199) and index; 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
N2  - 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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