Semantics and cultural change in the British Enlightenment : : new words and old / / by Carey McIntosh.

• Superior document: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; Volume 315
• VerfasserIn: McIntosh, Carey,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; Volume 315.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

Obsolete old words from 17th-century English villages reflect the realities of working-class life, exhausting labor, dirt, bizarre foods, magic, horses, outrageous sexism, feudal duties. New words, first appearing in print 1650-1800, reflect a middle-class culture very different from an earlier cour...

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 First Thoughts
• 2 Very Often, We Do Things with Words
• 3 A Preview of Six Chapters
• 4 Words and History
• 1 Old Words
• 1 Rural Life
• 2 A Village Doles Out Punishments
• 3 Cooking and Eating
• 4 Remnants of Feudalism
• 5 Hunting
• 6 Proverbs
• 7 Magic
• 2 New Words and the Middle Class
• 1 New Words and Cultural Change
• 2 The Invention of Comfort
• 3 A ‘Conversable World’
• 3 The Enlightenment
• 1 Orderliness, Organization, and Modernity
• 2 A Gradual Spread of Democratic Values
• 3 Weights and Measures
• 4 Science and the English Language
• 1 The Royal Society
• 2 Artificial Languages and Prose Style
• 3 Scientific Words
• 4 Anna Wierzbicka and Empirical Science
• 5 Words, Cultural Change, and History
• 1 Old Words in Dictionaries
• 2 Local Words
• 3 New Words – Party and Fun
• 4 Language and Culture and History
• 5 The Politicization of English
• 6 New Words in the Enlightenment
• 1 Individuality and Self-Consciousness
• 2 Bluestocking
• 3 ‘Public’ Words and the Public Sphere
• 4 Sympathy
• 5 Commercial
• 6 Classification
• 7 Critique and Cosmopolitan
• 8 Conclusion
• Party and Fun – Texts
• More Old Words
• New Words
• Works Cited
• Index.