Full Description
The fifteen papers selected for Volume II of English Historical Linguistics 2008 have a different emphasis than those in Volume I (CILT 314, Lenker et al. 2010). Nine concentrate on the development of the English vocabulary and six on historical text linguistics, including the development of text-types and of politeness strategies. Of those in the former group, three have their emphasis on etymology, three on semantic fields, and three on word-formation, although some cover more than one of these areas. The topics include: the treatment of etymological problems in the OED; deverbal derivations formed from native verbs and from loan-verbs; the role of metaphor and metonymy in the evolution of word-fields. The field of historical text linguistics is introduced by a general survey, which is followed by more specific studies focussing on 15th-century legal and administrative texts from Scotland, on early 15th-century women's mystical writings, on medical recipes from the 16th to the 18th centuries and on pauper letters from 18th-century Essex.
The book should appeal to scholars interested in English etymology, the history of semantic fields and of word-formation, as well as in historical text linguistics, politeness strategies and standardization. It provides not only theoretical considerations but also a wealth of case studies.
Contents
1. Foreword & acknowledgements; 2. List of abbreviations; 3. Editors' introduction: Explaining the development of the English vocabulary and analyzing characteristic features of English text types; 4. Part I. Etymology; 5. Etymology and the OED: The uses of etymology in a historical dictionary (by Durkin, Philip); 6. On the etymological relationships of wank, swank, and wonky (by Cohen, Paul S.); 7. Base etymology in the historical thesauri of deverbatives in English (by Bilynsky, Michael); 8. Part II. Semantic fields; 9. The global organization of the English lexicon and its evolution (by Ogura, Mieko); 10. Repayment and revenge: Metaphorical or metonymic links between two semantic fields (by Hough, Carole); 11. Semantic change in the domain of the vocabulary of Christian clergy (by Lodej, Sylwester); 12. Part III. Word-formation; 13. Abstract noun 'suffixes' and text type in Old English (by Gardner, Anne-Christine); 14. The lexicalisation of syncope: Derivational affixes in West Saxon adjectives (by Thompson, Penelope); 15. Oriented -ingly adjuncts in Late Modern English (by Broccias, Cristiano); 16. Part IV. Textlinguistics, text types, politeness; 17. Historical text linguistics: Investigating language change in texts and genres (by Kohnen, Thomas); 18. Repetitive and therefore fixed?: Lemmatic bundles and text-type standardisation in 15th-century administrative Scots (by Kopaczyk, Joanna); 19. Politeness strategies in Late Middle English women's mystical writing (by Yoshikawa, Fumiko); 20. A diachronic discussion of extenders in English remedies found in the Corpus of Early English Recipes (1350-1850) (by Ortega Barrera, Ivalla); 21. "It is with a trembling hand I beg to intrude this letter": Politeness in the pauper letters of 18th century England (by Chaemsaithong, Krisda); 22. Genre analysis: Changes in Research Article introductions (by Dimkovic-Telebakovic, Gordana); 23. Index
