A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary Of The English Language Dealing With The Origin Of Words And Their Sense Development Thus Illustrating The History Of Civilizationand Culture
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A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language
Author | : Ernest Klein |
Publsiher | : Amsterdam : Elsevier Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 874 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : UOM:49015002910538 |
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A detailed reference work examining the derivation and meanings of words.
A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language Dealing with the Origin of Words and Their Sense Development Thus Illustrating the History of Civilizationand Culture
Author | : E. Klein |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:1417543648 |
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A Reference Guide for English Studies
Author | : Michael J. Marcuse |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 2816 |
Release | : 2023-11-10 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9780520321878 |
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The Life of Words
Author | : David-Antoine Williams |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2020-05-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780192540546 |
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For centuries, investigations into the origins of words were entwined with investigations into the origins of humanity and the cosmos. With the development of modern etymological practice in the nineteenth century, however, many cherished etymologies were shown to be impossible, and the very idea of original 'true meaning' asserted in the etymology of 'etymology' declared a fallacy. Structural linguistics later held that the relationship between sound and meaning in language was 'arbitrary', or 'unmotivated', a truth that has survived with small modification until today. On the other hand, the relationship between sound and meaning has been a prime motivator of poems, at all times throughout history. The Life of Words studies a selection of poets inhabiting our 'Age of the Arbitrary', whose auditory-semantic sensibilities have additionally been motivated by a historical sense of the language, troubled as it may be by claims and counterclaims of 'fallacy' or 'true meaning'. Arguing that etymology activates peculiar kinds of epistemology in the modern poem, the book pays extended attention to poems by G. M. Hopkins, Anne Waldman, Ciaran Carson, and Anne Carson, and to the collected works of Geoffrey Hill, Paul Muldoon, Seamus Heaney, R. F. Langley, and J. H. Prynne.
English Historical Linguistics Volume 2
Author | : Alexander Bergs,Laurel J. Brinton |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 1168 |
Release | : 2012-10-01 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783110251609 |
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Landscape and Culture Cross linguistic Perspectives
Author | : Helen Bromhead |
Publsiher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2018-09-07 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789027264008 |
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The relationship between landscape and culture seen through language is an exciting and increasingly explored area. This ground-breaking book contributes to the linguistic examination of both cross-cultural variation and unifying elements in geographical categorization. The study focuses on the contrastive lexical semantics of certain landscape words in a number of languages. The aim is to show how geographical vocabulary sheds light on the culturally and historically shaped ways people see and think about the land around them. Notably, the study presents landscape concepts as anchored in a human-centred perspective, based on our cognition, vision, and experience in places. The Natural Semantic Metalanguage (NSM) approach allows an analysis of meaning which is both fine-grained and transparent. The book is aimed, first of all, at scholars and students of linguistics. Yet it will also be of interest to researchers in geography, environmental studies, anthropology, cultural studies, Australian Studies, and Australian Aboriginal Studies because of the book’s cultural take.
Multiple Perspectives on English Philology and History of Linguistics
Author | : Shōichi Watanabe,Tetsuji Oda,Hiroyuki Eto |
Publsiher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 3034304803 |
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This collection of articles covers a wide range of topics in English philology and history of linguistics. The volume proceeds from Old English studies offering a unique perspective and approach in literary and linguistic research into Anglo-Saxon England. Two articles deal with English phonology from both historical and contemporary standpoints, and another with a theoretical discussion of etymological inquiry. The last section contains three articles focusing on the history of linguistics or the history of ideas. The wide range of topics addressed in the 12 chapters of this volume reflects the diversity of interests in the research efforts of Shoichi Watanabe, professor emeritus at Sophia University, to whom this volume is dedicated by his former students. He is not only highly valued as a distinguished professor of English philology, but also acknowledged for his critique of civilization with his unique view of history and culture.
Creating Language
Author | : Morten H. Christiansen,Nick Chater |
Publsiher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2016-03-18 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780262034319 |
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A work that reveals the profound links between the evolution, acquisition, and processing of language, and proposes a new integrative framework for the language sciences. Language is a hallmark of the human species; the flexibility and unbounded expressivity of our linguistic abilities is unique in the biological world. In this book, Morten Christiansen and Nick Chater argue that to understand this astonishing phenomenon, we must consider how language is created: moment by moment, in the generation and understanding of individual utterances; year by year, as new language learners acquire language skills; and generation by generation, as languages change, split, and fuse through the processes of cultural evolution. Christiansen and Chater propose a revolutionary new framework for understanding the evolution, acquisition, and processing of language, offering an integrated theory of how language creation is intertwined across these multiple timescales. Christiansen and Chater argue that mainstream generative approaches to language do not provide compelling accounts of language evolution, acquisition, and processing. Their own account draws on important developments from across the language sciences, including statistical natural language processing, learnability theory, computational modeling, and psycholinguistic experiments with children and adults. Christiansen and Chater also consider some of the major implications of their theoretical approach for our understanding of how language works, offering alternative accounts of specific aspects of language, including the structure of the vocabulary, the importance of experience in language processing, and the nature of recursive linguistic structure.