English Historical Semantics / / Christian Kay, Kathryn Allan.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Kay, Christian,; Allan, Kathryn,
• MitwirkendeR: Biggam, C. P.,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Edinburgh Textbooks on the English Language - Advanced : ETELAA
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 8 B/W illustrations

An overview of the structural and cognitive approaches to English historical semanticsThis 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 meaningOffers a solid grounding in the basic methodology for corpus data analysisFeatures extended case studies on colour and kinship termsIncludes exercises and suggestions for further reading in every chapter

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations and conventions -- 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 -- Glossary of key terms -- References -- Index