English ‘Joyful’ Vocabulary – Semantic Developments
©2016
Monographs
171 Pages
Series:
Sounds – Meaning – Communication, Volume 3
Summary
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.
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Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1: Semantic Fields and Diachrony
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Jost Trier: the cradle of field theory
- 1.3 Post-Trier enthusiasts of semantic fields
- 1.3.1 From Weisgerber to Coseriu
- 1.3.2 Porzig’s intrinsic meaning relations
- 1.3.3 Mot-témoin vs. mot-clé
- 1.3.4 The field structure of life
- 1.4 Later trends in field theory
- 1.4.1 The nature of field boundaries
- 1.4.2 The issue of membership in a semantic field
- 1.4.3 In search of the centre of a semantic field
- 1.4.4 Do lexical gaps exist?
- 1.4.5 The systematisation of field terminology
- 1.5 The diachronic study of meaning: the notion of semantic change
- 1.5.1 Semantic change: typologies
- 1.5.2 Semantic change: causes and conditions
- 1.5.3 Semantic change: laws and mechanisms
- 1.5.4 Lexical relations in the context of diachronic semantic change
- 1.5.5 Diachronic semantic changes within semantic fields
- 1.6 Conclusion
- Chapter 2: Cognitive Linguistics and Panchrony
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 The major characteristics of cognitive linguistics
- 2.3 Cognitive Grammar
- 2.3.1 Cognitive Grammar as a functionalist approach to language
- 2.3.2 Meaning as conceptualisation
- 2.3.3 The symbolic alternative
- 2.3.4 Embodiment
- 2.3.5 The interactionist view
- 2.3.6 The localist view
- 2.4 The methodology of cognitive linguistics: basic concepts
- 2.4.1 Categorisation
- 2.4.2 Cognitive domains
- 2.4.3 Motivated organisation of domains
- 2.4.4 Construal
- 2.4.4.1 Specificity and schematicity
- 2.4.4.2 Focusing
- 2.4.4.3 Prominence
- 2.5 From diachrony to panchrony
- 2.6 Panchrony as a functional equivalent to diachrony
- 2.7 Conclusion
- Chapter 3: Panchrony and English ‘Joy’ Vocabulary
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 The concept of ‘joy’ as an emotion
- 3.3 English ‘joy’ vocabulary: a historical semantic analysis
- 3.3.1 Bliss
- 3.3.2 Cheer
- 3.3.3 Delight
- 3.3.4 Dream
- 3.3.5 Game
- 3.3.6 Gladness
- 3.3.7 Glee
- 3.3.8 Joy
- 3.3.9 Mirth
- 3.4 The evolution of the English ‘joy’ vocabulary: the results
- 3.5 Conclusion
- Conclusions
- References
- Index
Details
- Pages
- 171
- Publication Year
- 2016
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9783631701492
- ISBN (MOBI)
- 9783631701508
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9783653064476
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9783631669198
- DOI
- 10.3726/978-3-653-06447-6
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2015 (December)
- Keywords
- Cognitive linguistics Historical linguistics Panchrony Semantic field Diachrony Joy terminology
- Published
- Frankfurt am Main, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Wien, 2016. 171 pp., 46 b/w ill., 5 b/w tables