Hough, Carole

Colour Studies: A broad spectrum

by Hough, Carole, Kay, Christian, Biggam, Carole P., Anderson, Wendy

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The Jacobean artificial light - candlelight - was as important to the playwright as lighting effects are to a modern-day designer. This chapter explores the recreation of candlelight using a safe alternative, the most modern of technology and the future of stage lighting: LEDs. …

Mapping English metaphor through time

by Hough, Carole, Anderson, Wendy, Bramwell, Ellen, Oxford University Press

fromOxford linguistics

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This volume offers an empirical and diachronic investigation of the foundations and nature of metaphor in English, based on evidence from 'The Historical Thesaurus of English'. It offers case studies of a number of semantic domains and provides a significant step forward in the …

The Oxford handbook of names and naming

by Hough, Carole, Izdebska, Daria, Oxford University Press

fromOxford handbooks in linguistics

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"In this handbook, scholars from around the world offer an up-to-date account of the state of the art in different areas of onomastics, in a format that is both useful to specialists in related fields and accessible to the general reader. All known languages make use of names, m…