
English Historical Semantics
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- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of figures
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations and conventions
- 1 Introduction
- 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
- Exercises
- Further reading
- 3 Categories of meaning
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Traditional approaches to Semantics
- 3.3 Categories and prototypes
- 3.4 Domains and frames
- 3.5 Conclusion
- Exercises
- Further reading
- 4 Tracing the development of individual words
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Introducing the OED
- 4.3 What the OED tells us
- 4.4 Some other historical dictionaries
- 4.5 Historical corpora
- Exercises
- Further reading
- 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
- 5.6 Grammaticalisation
- 5.7 Why do words change meaning?
- 5.8 Conclusion
- Exercises
- Further reading
- 6 Larger categories
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 A brief history of thesauruses
- 6.3 The structure of thesauruses
- 6.4 Using HTOED
- 6.5 Conclusion
- Exercises
- Further reading
- 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
- 7.6 The changing nature of a basic category: BLUE
- 7.7 Summary
- 7.8 Conclusion
- Exercises
- Further reading
- 8 Language and culture
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Linguistics and anthropology
- 8.3 Pronouns of address
- 8.4 Kinship
- 8.5 Time
- 8.6 Conclusion
- Exercises
- Further reading
- 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
- Exercises
- Further reading
- 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
- Glossary of key terms
- References
- Index
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