English Historical Semantics

Christian Kay; Kathryn Allan

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2015

English Historical Semantics

Christian Kay and Kathryn Allan

In the series Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748644797

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About this book

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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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of figures Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Abbreviations and conventions Publicly Available Download PDF	x
1 Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 A brief history of the English lexicon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	6
3 Categories of meaning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
4 Tracing the development of individual words Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
5 How and why words change meaning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
6 Larger categories Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	92
7 English colour terms: A case study C. P. Biggam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
8 Language and culture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	132
9 Metaphor and metonymy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	150
10 The big picture and a look ahead Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
Glossary of key terms Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	200

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 224
Illustrations
- Other: 8 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Language & Linguistics

eBook

Published: October 8, 2015
ISBN: 9780748644797