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The Power of Words
Graham D. Caie
Carole Hough
Irené Wotherspoon
其他書名
Essays in Lexicography, Lexicology and Semantics : in Honour of Christian J. Kay
出版
Rodopi
, 2006
主題
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Pragmatics
Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Semantics
Language Arts & Disciplines / Lexicography
Literary Criticism / General
Reference / Dictionaries
ISBN
9789042021211
9042021217
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=RfxcbpXhCZoC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
This volume comprises essays in lexicography, lexicology and semantics by leading international experts in these fields. The contributions cover Old, Middle and Present-Day English and Scots, and specific subjects include medical vocabulary, colour lexemes, and semantic and pragmatic meaning in terms for politeness, money and humour. In the area of Old English studies there are articles on kinship terminology and colour lexemes, and in Middle English a semantic and syntactic study of the overlapping of the verbs
dreden and douten
. Many of the essays make use of the Historical Thesaurus of English project at the University of Glasgow, and pay tribute to its Director, Professor Christian Kay; e.g., one article demonstrates how the HTE, a project which is at the interface between historical semantics and lexicography, may present a rich resource for information about the lexicalization of concepts within our culture, such as changing social attitudes in the area of will, consent and coercion. Other resources, such as
The Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English
, and the Oxford English Dictionary provide a rich source for information on historical lexicography, semantics and editing. A number of essays concern the Scots language, such as an analysis of evaluative terms in modern Scots speech and writing, the rich potential of rhyme in Scots, and the role of lexicon in
th
- fronting in Glaswegian.