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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Kay, Christian (Autor), Allan, Kathryn (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2015]
Colección:Edinburgh textbooks on the English language. Advanced.
Temas:
English language > Semantics, Historical.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Etymology.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > General.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
English language > Semantics, Historical
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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