Change in Life, Change in Language: A Semantic Approach to the History of English

by Maria Begoña Crespo Garcia

Overview

This book provides the reader with a description of the semantic change that took place over two periods of the history of English language: Middle English and Early Modern English. The results of the analysis indicate a tendency towards specialisation in the meaning of lexical categories which runs parallel to specialisation in society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631634530
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	03/27/2013
Series:	Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature , #37
Pages:	145
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

Begoña Crespo is a senior lecturer at the University of La Coruña (Spain). She has been teaching English language and culture since 1996. She earned her PhD in English Philology in 2001 and has published several works on semantic change in English, historical word-formation and the lexicon of medieval and (Early) Modern scientific English. She is head of the research project «Women discourse and variation in English Scientific Texts (1700-1930)».

Table of Contents

Contents: Semantic change – Semantic change models – Semantic field – Componential analysis – Language change – Socio-historical Linguistics – Outer history – Inner history – Helsinki Corpus of English Texts.