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Author:   Christian Kay (Professor of English Language, University of Glasgow) ,  Kathryn L Allan (Lecturer, University College London) ,  Kathryn Allan
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.281kg
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9780748644773

ISBN 10:   0748644776
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   08 October 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

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

Reviews

To conclude, this is an important textbook which can be recommended to everyone teaching English historical semantics.--Heli Tissari, Stockholm University ""Neuphilologische Mitteilungen"" One of the greatest accomplishments of the books is its presentation of sophisticated and complex subject matter in an accessible, even friendly, discussion. That pedagogical voice is one students will appreciate. Crucially for a textbook, English Historical Semantics mixes concise, direct clarity with engaging turns of phrase that convey a pesonal voice; it is the voice of experienced teachesr working to engage students using stimulating language. English Historical Semantics fills an obvious gap in the literature - there is not comparable advanced textbook on the subject - and it can be recommended strongle for advanced students of semantics and pragmatics, lexicology and lexicography, and Cognitive Linguistics. --Seth Mehl, University of Sheffield ""Journal of Historical Pragmatics""

To conclude, this is an important textbook which can be recommended to everyone teaching English historical semantics.--Heli Tissari, Stockholm University Neuphilologische Mitteilungen One of the greatest accomplishments of the books is its presentation of sophisticated and complex subject matter in an accessible, even friendly, discussion. That pedagogical voice is one students will appreciate. Crucially for a textbook, English Historical Semantics mixes concise, direct clarity with engaging turns of phrase that convey a pesonal voice; it is the voice of experienced teachesr working to engage students using stimulating language. English Historical Semantics fills an obvious gap in the literature - there is not comparable advanced textbook on the subject - and it can be recommended strongle for advanced students of semantics and pragmatics, lexicology and lexicography, and Cognitive Linguistics. --Seth Mehl, University of Sheffield Journal of Historical Pragmatics

To conclude, this is an important textbook which can be recommended to everyone teaching English historical semantics.--Heli Tissari, Stockholm University Neuphilologische Mitteilungen One of the greatest accomplishments of the books is its presentation of sophisticated and complex subject matter in an accessible, even friendly, discussion. That pedagogical voice is one students will appreciate. Crucially for a textbook, English Historical Semantics mixes concise, direct clarity with engaging turns of phrase that convey a pesonal voice; it is the voice of experienced teachesr working to engage students using stimulating language. English Historical Semantics fills an obvious gap in the literature - there is not comparable advanced textbook on the subject - and it can be recommended strongle for advanced students of semantics and pragmatics, lexicology and lexicography, and Cognitive Linguistics. --Seth Mehl, University of Sheffield Journal of Historical Pragmatics

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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. Kathryn Allan is Senior Lecturer in the History of English at University College London. Her research interests are in historical semantics and lexicology, and she is the co-editor of Historical Cognitive Linguistics and Current Methods in Historical Semantics. Her monograph Metaphor and Metonymy: A Diachronic Approach was published in the Philological Society series, and she is a collaborator on the Keywords Project

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