Webs of Words New Studies in Historical Lexicology 1st Edition by John Considine ISBN 1443819522 9781443819527

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ISBN 10: 1443819522 
ISBN 13: 9781443819527
Author: John Considine

In the first four essays, focussing on pre-1800 material, Karel Kučera and Martin Stluka’s opening essay discusses the plotting of the relative historical frequency of common words, drawing on their work with the diachronic portion of the Czech National Corpus; Ian Lancashire asks why Tudor England had no monolingual English dictionary; Chiara Benati discusses the interplay between Low German, High German, and Latin in an early modern surgical text, and Mateusz Urban sorts out the competing etymologies of English balcony, Italian balcone, and similar forms in Persian and Russian. The next six turn to more recent material. Jane Samson analyzes the nineteenth-century debate as to whether the Māori language was too primitive to have a word for “blue”; Vivien Waszink discusses the Dutch prefixes bio- and eco- and their documentation in a new dictionary; Tommaso Pellin examines a series of attempts to provide a grammatical terminology in Chinese; Lise Winer surveys the naming of fauna in the English / Creole of Trinidad and Tobago; Mirosława Podhajecka writes on the treatment of Russian loanwords in the current revision of the Oxford English Dictionary, with special attention to Google Books as a research tool; and Isabel Casanova asks whether Portuguese dictionaries should register English words.

Webs of Words New Studies in Historical Lexicology 1st Table of contents:

• Chapter 1: The Nature of Lexical Change

  • 2.1 What is Lexical Change?
  • 2.2 Semantic Shifts and Their Causes
  • 2.3 Etymology: Tracing the Origins of Words
  • 2.4 Social, Cultural, and Historical Factors in Lexical Change

• Chapter 2: The Role of Dictionaries in Lexicology

  • 3.1 The History of Lexicography
  • 3.2 Early Dictionaries and Their Impact on Language Study
  • 3.3 The Development of Historical Dictionaries
  • 3.4 Modern Lexicography: Trends and Innovations

• Chapter 3: Methods in Historical Lexicology

  • 4.1 Historical and Comparative Methods
  • 4.2 Corpus Analysis and Its Role in Lexicology
  • 4.3 The Use of Primary Sources in Lexical Studies
  • 4.4 Digital Tools and Resources in Lexicographical Research

• Chapter 4: Words in Transition: Case Studies of Lexical Evolution

  • 5.1 The Evolution of Common Everyday Words
  • 5.2 The Influence of Contact Languages on Lexical Change
  • 5.3 Technological and Scientific Vocabulary: Adaptation and Innovation
  • 5.4 Political, Social, and Ideological Influences on Word Meaning

• Chapter 5: The Relationship Between Lexicology and Social Change

  • 6.1 Language as a Reflection of Society
  • 6.2 Lexical Change in Response to Social Movements
  • 6.3 The Role of Words in Shaping National and Cultural Identities
  • 6.4 Case Studies of Words That Reflect Shifting Social Norms

• Chapter 6: Metaphor, Symbolism, and Lexical Development

  • 7.1 The Role of Metaphor in Language Evolution
  • 7.2 Symbolic Meanings of Words Across Cultures
  • 7.3 Cognitive Approaches to Metaphor and Lexical Change
  • 7.4 Words as Carriers of Ideological and Cultural Shifts

• Chapter 7: The Globalization of Vocabulary

  • 8.1 The Spread of English and Its Impact on Global Lexicons
  • 8.2 Borrowing, Loanwords, and the Integration of New Vocabulary
  • 8.3 Language Contact and the Evolution of Global Words
  • 8.4 Language Purism vs. Lexical Adaptation: Debates and Trends

• Chapter 8: The Future of Historical Lexicology

  • 9.1 New Directions in Lexicographical Research
  • 9.2 The Role of Digital Humanities in Lexical Studies
  • 9.3 Predicting Future Lexical Trends and Changes
  • 9.4 The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Lexicography

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