"Examines the origins and development of the words we use, critiquing the ways in which they have traditionally been employed in historical thinking and examining their potential usefulness today"--(provided by the publisher).
Preface; Introduction: Exploring the "state of the art" in historical semantics; Section 1: Data and sources; Using OED data as evidence; Developing The Historical Thesaurus of the OED; The NeoCrawler: identifying and retrieving neologisms from the internet and monitoring on-goi…
Current methods in historical semantics: grew out of a workshop at the 15th International …
by Allan, Kathryn, Robinson, Justyna A., International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, München, Workshop, Munich), International Conference of English Historical Linguistics, München)
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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…
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…
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…
This book is the first of its kind to engage explicitly with the practice of conceptual history as it relates to the study of the Middle Ages, exploring the pay-offs and pitfalls of using concepts in medieval history. Concepts are indispensable to historians as a means of unders…
Historische Semantik und Begriffsgeschichte