Lexicology, Semantics, and Lexicography - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lexicology, Semantics, and Lexicography write by Julie Coleman. This book was released on 2000-01-01. Lexicology, Semantics, and Lexicography available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Including a selection of papers originally presented at the 10th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, the contributions to this volume aim to show the breadth and depth of late-1990s studies in lexicology, semantics and lexicography.
Lexicology, Semantics and Lexicography
Lexicology, Semantics and Lexicography - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lexicology, Semantics and Lexicography write by Julie Coleman. This book was released on 2000-07-15. Lexicology, Semantics and Lexicography available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The papers in this volume show the range and direction of current work in historical semantics and word-studies. There is a strong focus throughout on semantic change and lexical innovation, interpreted within a sociolinguistic, cultural or textual context. Many of the papers draw on the remarkable range of electronic resources now available to historical linguists, notably corpora, dictionaries, bibliographies and thesauruses, and show the effects that these have had in stimulating new lines of research or the re-interpretation of previous conclusions. Cognitive semantics, and especially prototype theory, emerges as a challenging theoretical framework for much current research. The volume contains a selection from papers presented at the 10th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (10ICEHL). They include work on historical lexicography and an account of the workshop on electronic dictionary resources, such as the Revised Oxford English Dictionary, which formed the centrepiece of the Fourth G. L. Brook Symposium.
A Changing World of Words
A Changing World of Words - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Changing World of Words write by . This book was released on 2021-11-15. A Changing World of Words available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the contents: Maurizio GOTTI: The origin of 17th century canting terms. - Anne MCDERMOTT: Early dictionaries of English and historical corpora: in search of hard words. - Paivi KOIVISTO-ALANKO: Prototypes in semantic change: a diachronic perspective on abstract nouns. - Manuela ROMANO POZO: A morphodynamic interpretation of synonymy and polysemy in Old English."
The Power of Words
The Power of Words - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Power of Words write by Graham D. Caie. This book was released on 2006. The Power of Words available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume comprises essays in lexicography, lexicology and semantics by leading international experts in these fields. The contributions cover Old, Middle and Present-Day English and Scots, and specific subjects include medical vocabulary, colour lexemes, and semantic and pragmatic meaning in terms for politeness, money and humour. In the area of Old English studies there are articles on kinship terminology and colour lexemes, and in Middle English a semantic and syntactic study of the overlapping of the verbs dreden and douten. Many of the essays make use of the Historical Thesaurus of English project at the University of Glasgow, and pay tribute to its Director, Professor Christian Kay; e.g., one article demonstrates how the HTE, a project which is at the interface between historical semantics and lexicography, may present a rich resource for information about the lexicalization of concepts within our culture, such as changing social attitudes in the area of will, consent and coercion. Other resources, such as The Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English, and the Oxford English Dictionary provide a rich source for information on historical lexicography, semantics and editing. A number of essays concern the Scots language, such as an analysis of evaluative terms in modern Scots speech and writing, the rich potential of rhyme in Scots, and the role of lexicon in th- fronting in Glaswegian.
Meaning and Lexicography
Meaning and Lexicography - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Meaning and Lexicography write by Jerzy Tomaszczyk. This book was released on 1990-01-01. Meaning and Lexicography available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While lexicology, lexical semantics, and lexicography all share an interest in lexical items, they often tend to be regarded as three separate albeit interrelated fields. Indeed, the extent to which the interrelationship is recognized and taken into account in lexicographic practice is the moot point. The conference which produced the papers offered in this volume was designed to bring their practioners together and thus gives an impetus to closer cooperation among them, It is the editors' conviction that the practical activity of lexicography should learn more from its sister fields. People working in lexicography, lexical semantics, etc. may find some of the insights arrived at in the more practically oriented descriptions pertinent and useful.
