This book offers an accessible overview of the structural and cognitive approaches to English historical semantics. Focusing primarily on Lexical Semantics, the study of word meaning, the book looks at how these approaches help to answer two key questions in Historical Linguistics: how and why languages change.
This book offers an accessible overview of the structural and cognitive approaches to English historical semantics. Focusing primarily on Lexical Semantics, the study of word meaning, the book looks at how these approaches help to answer two key questions in Historical Linguistics: how and why languages change.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Christian Kay is Professor Emeritus and Honorary Professorial Research Fellow in English Language at the University of Glasgow. She was an editor of the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary, and A Thesaurus of Old English, and founded the Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech. She has written on historical semantics and lexicography and contributed to projects on metaphor and semantic annotation based on the Historical Thesaurus of English dataset.
Inhaltsangabe
Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: A brief history of the English lexicon 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Old English (OE: 700-1150) 2.3 Middle English (ME: 1150-1500) 2.4 Early Modern English (EModE: 1500-1750) 2.5 Late Modern English (LModE: 1750 to present day) 2.6 Conclusion: The Present Day Chapter 3: Categories of meaning 3.1. Introduction 3.2 Traditional approaches to Semantics 3.2.1 Reference 3.2.2 Sense 3.2.2.1 Sense relationships 3.2.3 Components, sets and fields 3.2.4 A note on homonymy 3.2.5 A memory aid 3.3 Categories and prototypes 3.3.1 Prototypes in action 3.3.2 Lexical prototypes 3.3.3 Homonymy revisited 3.4 Domains and frames 3.5. Conclusion Chapter 4: Tracing the development of individual words 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Introducing the OED 4.2.1 OED1 4.2.2 OED2 4.2.3 OED3 4.3 What the OED tells us 4.3.1 manga2 4.3.2 monster 4.3.2.1 Formal history and etymology of monster 4.3.2.2 Semantic history 4.3.3 Overview 4.4 Some other historical dictionaries 4.4.1 Middle English Dictionary (MED) 4.4.2 Anglo-Norman Dictionary (AND) 4.4.3 Dictionary of the Scots Language (DSL) 4.4.4 Dictionary of Old English (DOE) 4.4.5 Other dictionaries 4.5 Historical corpora Chapter 5: How and why words change meaning 5.1 Introduction 5.2 The significance of meaning change 5.3 Studying semantic change 5.4 The process of semantic change 5.5 Categories of meaning change 5.5.1 Widening (or broadening or generalisation) and narrowing (or specialisation) 5.5.2 Amelioration (or elevation) and pejoration (or deterioration or degeneration) 5.5.3 Metaphor and metonymy 5.6 Grammaticalisation 5.7 Why do words change meaning? 5.7.1 External factors 5.7.2 Internal factors: polysemy, homonymy, synonymy 5.7.3 Stylistic factors 5.8 Conclusion Chapter 6: Larger categories 6.1 Introduction 6.2 A brief history of thesauruses 6.3 The structure of thesauruses 6.3.1 Basic level and other categories 6.3.2 Folk and expert categories 6.4 Using HTOED 6.4.1 The structure of HTOED 6.4.2 Inside HTOED categories 6.5 Conclusion Chapter 7: English Colour Terms: A case study, C. P. Biggam 7.1 Introduction 7.2 How to describe colour 7.3 What are Basic Colour Terms? 7.4 The evolution of basic colour categories 7.5 The development of colour terms in English 7.5.1 Old English (OE: 700-1150) 7.5.2 Middle English (ME: 1150-1500) 7.5.3 Modern English (ModE 1500-) 7.6 The changing nature of a basic category: BLUE 7.7 Summary 7.8 Conclusion Chapter 8: Language and culture 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Linguistics and anthropology 8.3 Pronouns of address 8.4 Kinship 8.4.1 Recent changes 8.5 Time 8.6 Conclusion Chapter 9: Metaphor and metonymy 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Metaphor in language and thought 9.3 Another kind of mapping: metonymy 9.4 Metaphor and motivation 9.5 Metonymy and motivation 9.6 Conclusion Chapter 10: The big picture and a look ahead 10.1 Introduction 10.2 The big picture 10.3 Green as an example 10. 4 Looking ahead References Glossary of key terms Index
Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: A brief history of the English lexicon 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Old English (OE: 700-1150) 2.3 Middle English (ME: 1150-1500) 2.4 Early Modern English (EModE: 1500-1750) 2.5 Late Modern English (LModE: 1750 to present day) 2.6 Conclusion: The Present Day Chapter 3: Categories of meaning 3.1. Introduction 3.2 Traditional approaches to Semantics 3.2.1 Reference 3.2.2 Sense 3.2.2.1 Sense relationships 3.2.3 Components, sets and fields 3.2.4 A note on homonymy 3.2.5 A memory aid 3.3 Categories and prototypes 3.3.1 Prototypes in action 3.3.2 Lexical prototypes 3.3.3 Homonymy revisited 3.4 Domains and frames 3.5. Conclusion Chapter 4: Tracing the development of individual words 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Introducing the OED 4.2.1 OED1 4.2.2 OED2 4.2.3 OED3 4.3 What the OED tells us 4.3.1 manga2 4.3.2 monster 4.3.2.1 Formal history and etymology of monster 4.3.2.2 Semantic history 4.3.3 Overview 4.4 Some other historical dictionaries 4.4.1 Middle English Dictionary (MED) 4.4.2 Anglo-Norman Dictionary (AND) 4.4.3 Dictionary of the Scots Language (DSL) 4.4.4 Dictionary of Old English (DOE) 4.4.5 Other dictionaries 4.5 Historical corpora Chapter 5: How and why words change meaning 5.1 Introduction 5.2 The significance of meaning change 5.3 Studying semantic change 5.4 The process of semantic change 5.5 Categories of meaning change 5.5.1 Widening (or broadening or generalisation) and narrowing (or specialisation) 5.5.2 Amelioration (or elevation) and pejoration (or deterioration or degeneration) 5.5.3 Metaphor and metonymy 5.6 Grammaticalisation 5.7 Why do words change meaning? 5.7.1 External factors 5.7.2 Internal factors: polysemy, homonymy, synonymy 5.7.3 Stylistic factors 5.8 Conclusion Chapter 6: Larger categories 6.1 Introduction 6.2 A brief history of thesauruses 6.3 The structure of thesauruses 6.3.1 Basic level and other categories 6.3.2 Folk and expert categories 6.4 Using HTOED 6.4.1 The structure of HTOED 6.4.2 Inside HTOED categories 6.5 Conclusion Chapter 7: English Colour Terms: A case study, C. P. Biggam 7.1 Introduction 7.2 How to describe colour 7.3 What are Basic Colour Terms? 7.4 The evolution of basic colour categories 7.5 The development of colour terms in English 7.5.1 Old English (OE: 700-1150) 7.5.2 Middle English (ME: 1150-1500) 7.5.3 Modern English (ModE 1500-) 7.6 The changing nature of a basic category: BLUE 7.7 Summary 7.8 Conclusion Chapter 8: Language and culture 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Linguistics and anthropology 8.3 Pronouns of address 8.4 Kinship 8.4.1 Recent changes 8.5 Time 8.6 Conclusion Chapter 9: Metaphor and metonymy 9.1 Introduction 9.2 Metaphor in language and thought 9.3 Another kind of mapping: metonymy 9.4 Metaphor and motivation 9.5 Metonymy and motivation 9.6 Conclusion Chapter 10: The big picture and a look ahead 10.1 Introduction 10.2 The big picture 10.3 Green as an example 10. 4 Looking ahead References Glossary of key terms Index
Es gelten unsere Allgemeinen Geschäftsbedingungen: www.buecher.de/agb
Impressum
www.buecher.de ist ein Internetauftritt der buecher.de internetstores GmbH
Geschäftsführung: Monica Sawhney | Roland Kölbl | Günter Hilger
Sitz der Gesellschaft: Batheyer Straße 115 - 117, 58099 Hagen
Postanschrift: Bürgermeister-Wegele-Str. 12, 86167 Augsburg
Amtsgericht Hagen HRB 13257
Steuernummer: 321/5800/1497
