Sociocultural dimensions of lexis and text in the history of English /

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The chapters collected in this volume examine how the sociohistorical and cultural context may influence structural features of lexis and text types. Each paper pays particular attention to social 'labels' and attitudes (conservative, religious, ideological, endearing, or other), thereby f...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: International Conference on English Historical Linguistics Louvain, Belgium
Otros Autores: Petré, Peter (Linguist) (Editor ), Cuyckens, H. (Editor ), D'Hoedt, Frauke (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]
Colección:Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory ; v. 343.
Temas:
English language > History > Congresses.
English language > Grammar, Historical > Congresses.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > General.
English language > Grammar, Historical
English language
English language > Social aspects
Historical linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: philology as linguistically informed cultural history / Peter Petré and Hubert Cuyckens
  • Conspicuous lexical choice in past societies. Old English ead in Anglo-Saxon given names: a comparative approach to Anglo-Saxon anthroponomy / Olga Khallieva Boiché
  • News and relations: highlighted textual labels in the titles of early modern news pamphlets / Carla Suhr
  • "All spirits, and are melted into air, into thin air": metaphorical connections in the history of English / Marc Alexander and Christian Kay
  • Historical layers in text and genre. Conservatism and innovation in Anglo-Saxon scribal practice / Christine Wallis
  • Old English wills: a genre study / Lilo Moessner
  • Spatio-temporal systems in Chaucer / Minako Nakayasu
  • "A riddle to myself I am": argument shifting in English congregational song between 1500 and 1900 / Kirsten Gather
  • Lexis, morphology, and a changing society. Common to the North of England and to New England: British English regionalisms in John Russell Bartlett's Dictionary of Americanisms / Javier Ruano-Garrcía
  • Betwixt, amongst, and amidst: the diachronic development of function words with final / st/ / Ryuichi Hotta
  • English word clipping in a diachronic perspective / Donka Minkova.

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