The Language of Fashion: Linguistic, Cognitive, and Cultural Insights

ISBN-13: 9783034344289 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 192 str.

Annalisa Baicchi; Stefania Biscetti

Opis

This volume contributes to advancing the knowledge of crucial aspects in the language of fashion, such as its morphological, lexical, pragmatic, and cultural features, without ignoring cognitive and semiotic phenomena. The chapters testify to the variety and vitality of scientific research in the complex and multifaceted language of fashion.

Spis treści

Fashion in Later Medieval Britain- Nominal Constructs in Fashion and Costume- 'Fashion'-based (pseudo-)Anglicisms in Spanish- Spatial particles in English Fashion Compounds- The Political Language of Fashion-Bipartite Nouns as singulars- The Conceptualisation of Fashion Terms.

O autorze

Annalisa Baicchi is Chair of English Linguistics
at the University of Genova, Italy. Her research
interests include cognitive linguistics, construction
grammar, inferential pragmatics, contrastive
linguistics, and acquisitional linguistics,
investigated from the perspective of complexity
theories.

Stefania Biscetti is Assistant Professor of English
Linguistics at the University of L'Aquila,
Italy. Her research activity is mainly aimed at
identifying the impact of culture and cognition
on language use. Her research interests include
linguistic pragmatics and semantics, cognitive
linguistics, contrastive linguistics, approached
both synchronically and diachronically.