Sociocultural dimensions of lexis and text in the history of English / / edited by Peter Petre, Hubert Cuyckens, Frauke D'Hoedt.

• Superior document: Current issues in linguistic theory ; Volume 343
• TeilnehmendeR: Cuyckens, H.,; D'Hoedt, Frauke,; Petre, Peter (Linguist),
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, Philadelphia : : John Benjamins Publishing Company,, [2018]; 2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Amsterdam studies in the theory and history of linguistic science. Current issues in linguistic theory.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (268 pages).
• Notes: Selected papers presented at the 18th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, (ICEHL18), held at the University of Leuven, July 14-18, 2014.

Table of Contents

• Introduction: philology as linguistically informed cultural history / Peter Petre 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 Boiche
• 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-Garrcia
• Betwixt, amongst, and amidst: the diachronic development of function words with final / st/ / Ryuichi Hotta
• English word clipping in a diachronic perspective / Donka Minkova.