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Kirill Postoutenko - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Pasi Ihalainen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Between Historical Semantics and pragmatics: Reconstructing past political thought through conceptual history
    Journal of Historical Pragmatics, 2006
    Co-Authors: Pasi Ihalainen
    Abstract:

    This paper discusses the methodology of conceptual history, a branch of the study of the history of political thought which focuses on the changing meanings of political concepts over the course of time. It is suggested here that methodological disputes among historians of political thought frequently arise out of differing theories of language and meaning and that historians should be more open-minded to the idea of combining various research strategies in their work. Conceptual history, for instance, can be viewed as the combination of Historical versions of Semantics and pragmatics. While the study of the macro-level semantic changes in the language of politics can reveal interesting long-term trends and innovative uses of language, a contextual analysis of speech acts is also needed when the rhetorical aspects of conceptual change are traced. This interaction of semantic and pragmatic analysis in conceptual history is illustrated by examples originating from eighteenth-century political preaching.

Benvenuto Terracini - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Kathryn Allan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • english Historical Semantics
    2015
    Co-Authors: Christian Kay, Kathryn Allan
    Abstract:

    Providing an ideal introduction to Historical Semantics, this book offers graduate students and advanced undergraduate students in linguistics 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 such studies help to answer two key questions in Historical Linguistics: how and why languages change. Considering changes both in the meanings of individual word forms and in larger areas of the lexicon, English Historical Semantics illustrates how data can be found and analysed, and explores how Lexical Semantics interacts with other areas of linguistics. In particular, the book describes in detail two of the most essential resources in this field: the Oxford English Dictionary and the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary. By using corpus data to study Historical Semantics, this book offers a solid grounding in the basic methodology of how to analyse corpus data, providing students with the tools to explore new words entering the language, and to study language change. With extended case studies including colour and kinship terms, suggestions for further reading, and exercises designed to stimulate reflection and test understanding, this textbook is an invaluable resource and practical guide designed to help students navigate this large and fascinating field. Edinburgh Textbooks on The English Language - AdvancedSeries Editor: Heinz Giegerich Books in this series provide readers with a detailed description and explanation of key areas in English Language study. The authors presuppose a basic working knowledge of the topic and explore aspects of the linguistics of English for an intermediate or advanced student readership.

  • current methods in Historical Semantics
    Mouton De Gruyter (2011), 2011
    Co-Authors: Kathryn Allan, Justyna A Robinson
    Abstract:

    The volume systematises, reviews, and promotes a range of empirical research techniques and theoretical perspectives that currently inform work across the discipline of Historical Semantics.

  • current methods in Historical Semantics
    Published in 2012 in Berlin by De Gruyter Mouton, 2011
    Co-Authors: Kathryn Allan, Justyna A Robinson
    Abstract:

    Innovative, data-driven methods provide more rigorous and systematic evidence for the description and explanation of diachronic semantic processes. The volume systematises, reviews, and promotes a range of empirical research techniques and theoretical perspectives that currently inform work across the discipline of Historical Semantics. In addition to emphasising the use of new technology, the potential of current theoretical models (e.g. within variationist, sociolinguistic or cognitive frameworks) is explored along the way.

Viktor Zhivov - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • conceptual history cultural history social history
    ВИВЛIОθИКА: E-Journal of Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies, 2014
    Co-Authors: Viktor Zhivov
    Abstract:

    V. M. Zhivov’s introduction to Studies in Historical Semantics of the Russian Language in the Early Modern Period (2009), translated here for the first time, offers a critical survey of the historiography on Begriffsgeschichte , the German school of conceptual history associated with the work of Reinhart Koselleck, as well as of its application to the study of Russian culture.  By situating Begriffsgeschichte in the context of late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century European philosophy, particularly hermeneutics and phenomenology, the author points out the important, and as yet unacknowledged, role that Russian linguists have played in the development of a native school of conceptual history.  In the process of outlining this alternative history of the discipline, Zhivov provides some specific examples of the way in which the study of “Historical Semantics” can be used to analyze the development of Russian modernity.