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Titolo: | Sociocultural dimensions of lexis and text in the history of English / / edited by Peter Petre, Hubert Cuyckens, Frauke D'Hoedt |
Pubblicazione: | Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2018] |
©2018 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (268 pages) |
Disciplina: | 420.9 |
Soggetto topico: | English language - History |
English language - Grammar, Historical | |
Persona (resp. second.): | CuyckensH |
D'HoedtFrauke | |
PetréPeter (Linguist) | |
Note generali: | Selected papers presented at the 18th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, (ICEHL18), held at the University of Leuven, July 14-18, 2014. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Introduction: philology as linguistically informed cultural history / Peter Petré and Hubert Cuyckens -- Conspicuous lexical choice in past societies. Old English ead in Anglo-Saxon given names: a comparative approach to Anglo-Saxon anthroponomy / Olga Khallieva Boiché -- News and relations: highlighted textual labels in the titles of early modern news pamphlets / Carla Suhr -- "All spirits, and are melted into air, into thin air": metaphorical connections in the history of English / Marc Alexander and Christian Kay -- Historical layers in text and genre. Conservatism and innovation in Anglo-Saxon scribal practice / Christine Wallis -- Old English wills: a genre study / Lilo Moessner -- Spatio-temporal systems in Chaucer / Minako Nakayasu -- "A riddle to myself I am": argument shifting in English congregational song between 1500 and 1900 / Kirsten Gather -- Lexis, morphology, and a changing society. Common to the North of England and to New England: British English regionalisms in John Russell Bartlett's Dictionary of Americanisms / Javier Ruano-Garrcía -- Betwixt, amongst, and amidst: the diachronic development of function words with final / st/ / Ryuichi Hotta -- English word clipping in a diachronic perspective / Donka Minkova. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Sociocultural dimensions of lexis and text in the history of English |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910820613803321 |
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