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