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8 produkter
Metaphor and Metonymy
A Diachronic Approach
Häftad, 2009
341 kr
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The way in which we understand the concept of intelligence is rooted in metaphor and metonymy; for example, it is common to describe people as ‘bright’ or ‘thick’. This book explores the motivation for some of the lexemes in this semantic field across the history of the English language, …
Historical Cognitive Linguistics
Av Margaret E. Winters, Heli Tissari m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
2338 kr
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The volume explores the ways in which language change is studied within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics, a semantics-based theory of language production and perception. The eleven chapters explore two kinds of changes: firstly, those which involve mental prototypes or 'best instances' of …
Historical Cognitive Linguistics
Av Kathryn Allan, Heli Tissari m. fl.
E-bok, 2010
2364 kr
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The volume explores the ways in which language change is studied within the framework of Cognitive Linguistics, a semantics-based theory of language production and perception. The eleven chapters explore two kinds of changes: firstly, those which involve mental prototypes or ''best instances'' of …
Current Methods in Historical Semantics
Av Kathryn Allan, Justyna A. Robinson
Inbunden, 2011
2390 kr
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Innovative, data-driven methods provide more rigorous and systematic evidence for the description and explanation of diachronic semantic processes. The volume systematises, reviews, and promotes a range of empirical research techniques and theoretical perspectives that currently inform work across …
Current Methods in Historical Semantics
Av Justyna A. Robinson, Kathryn Allan
E-bok, 2011
2416 kr
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Innovative, data-driven methods provide more rigorous and systematic evidence for the description and explanation of diachronic semantic processes. The volume systematises, reviews, and promotes a range of empirical research techniques and theoretical perspectives that currently inform work across …
Language Contact and Semantic Development in Late Medieval English
Av Louise Sylvester, Megan Tiddeman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
1796 kr
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The multilingual context of medieval Britain has been a focus of historical linguistic scholarship for some time, but Middle English has often been examined in isolation. This book analyzes a large dataset of English vocabulary from the late Middle Ages, a time when the language was gaining new …
Language Contact and Semantic Development in Late Medieval English
Av Kathryn Allan, Richard Ingham m. fl.
E-bok, 2025
1572 kr
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The multilingual context of medieval Britain has been a focus of historical linguistic scholarship for some time, but Middle English has often been examined in isolation. This book analyzes a large dataset of English vocabulary from the late Middle Ages, a time when the language was gaining new …
