English 'Joyful' Vocabulary - Semantic Developments

ISBN-13: 9783631669198 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 171 str.

Angelina Zysko

Opis

The book offers a novel exploration into the semantic development of English terms concerning the concept of 'joy' (bliss, cheer, delight, dream, game, gladness, glee, joy, and mirth). The analysis, carried out within the framework of cognitive and historical linguistics, employs the notions of cognitive domains, profiling, and categorisation. The author adopts a panchronic perspective, according to which language reflects the way speakers experience the world. This allows her to provide a new insight into the intrinsic nature of semantic change.

Spis treści

Semantic field - Diachrony - Cognitive linguistics - Cognitive domains - Semantic change - Panchrony - 'Joy' terms - Semantic Fields and Diachrony - Cognitive Linguistics and Panchrony - Panchrony and English 'Joy' Vocabulary

O autorze

Angelina ysko is an assistant professor in the Department of Cultural Linguistics at the Institute of English, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland. She has published internationally in linguistic journals and volumes on cognitive and historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, and panchrony.