Lexicology, Semantics and Lexicography: Selected papers from the Fourth G. L. Brook Symposium, Manchester, August 1998: 194 (Current Issues in Linguistic Theory) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027237018 ISBN 13: 9789027237019

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2000

Synopsis

The papers in this volume show the range and direction of current work in historical semantics and word-studies. There is a strong focus throughout on semantic change and lexical innovation, interpreted within a sociolinguistic, cultural or textual context. Many of the papers draw on the remarkable range of electronic resources now available to historical linguists, notably corpora, dictionaries, bibliographies and thesauruses, and show the effects that these have had in stimulating new lines of research or the re-interpretation of previous conclusions. Cognitive semantics, and especially prototype theory, emerges as a challenging theoretical framework for much current research. The volume contains a selection from papers presented at the 10th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (10ICEHL). They include work on historical lexicography and an account of the workshop on electronic dictionary resources, such as the Revised Oxford English Dictionary, which formed the centrepiece of the Fourth G. L. Brook Symposium.

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Synopsis

This volume includes a selection of papers originally presented at the 10th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, held at the Unversity of Manchester in August 1998. The contributions aim to show the breadth and depth of late-1990s studies in lexicology, semantics and lexicography.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027237018
• ISBN 13: 9789027237019
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 263
• Editor: Coleman Julie, Kay Christian