Overview

This book offers graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in linguistics and English Language an accessible overview of the structural and cognitive approaches to English historical semantics. Focusing primarily on Lexical Semantics, the study of word meaning, the book looks at how these approaches help to answer two key questions in Historical Linguistics: how and why languages change.

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Author:   Christian Kay ,  Kathryn Allan ,  Kathryn Allan
Publisher:   Edinburgh University Press
Imprint:   Edinburgh University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.281kg
ISBN:  

9780748644773

ISBN 10:   0748644776
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   31 October 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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To conclude, this is an important textbook which can be recommended to everyone teaching English historical semantics.--Heli Tissari, Stockholm University Neuphilologische Mitteilungen One of the greatest accomplishments of the books is its presentation of sophisticated and complex subject matter in an accessible, even friendly, discussion. That pedagogical voice is one students will appreciate. Crucially for a textbook, English Historical Semantics mixes concise, direct clarity with engaging turns of phrase that convey a pesonal voice; it is the voice of experienced teachesr working to engage students using stimulating language. English Historical Semantics fills an obvious gap in the literature - there is not comparable advanced textbook on the subject - and it can be recommended strongle for advanced students of semantics and pragmatics, lexicology and lexicography, and Cognitive Linguistics. --Seth Mehl, University of Sheffield Journal of Historical Pragmatics

To conclude, this is an important textbook which can be recommended to everyone teaching English historical semantics.--Heli Tissari, Stockholm University Neuphilologische Mitteilungen One of the greatest accomplishments of the books is its presentation of sophisticated and complex subject matter in an accessible, even friendly, discussion. That pedagogical voice is one students will appreciate. Crucially for a textbook, English Historical Semantics mixes concise, direct clarity with engaging turns of phrase that convey a pesonal voice; it is the voice of experienced teachesr working to engage students using stimulating language. English Historical Semantics fills an obvious gap in the literature - there is not comparable advanced textbook on the subject - and it can be recommended strongle for advanced students of semantics and pragmatics, lexicology and lexicography, and Cognitive Linguistics. --Seth Mehl, University of Sheffield Journal of Historical Pragmatics

Author Information

Christian Kay is Professor Emeritus and Honorary Professorial Research Fellow in English Language at the University of Glasgow. Kathryn L. Allan is Senior Lecturer in the History of English at University College London.

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