Lexicology

Lexicology
Author: M.A.K. Halliday
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2007-04-09
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 082649479X

Presents a concise survey of lexicology. This book surveys the study of words, providing an overview of basic issues in defining and understanding the word as a unit of language. It also examines the history of lexicology, the evolution of dictionaries and developments in the field. It is of interest to undergraduate students of linguistics.

The Old English Lives of St Martin of Tours

The Old English Lives of St Martin of Tours
Author: Andre Mertens
Publisher: Göttingen University Press
Total Pages: 508
Release: 2017
Genre: Christian saints
ISBN: 3863953134

St Martin of Tours is one of Christianity’s major saints and his significance reaches far beyond the powerful radiance of his iconic act of charity. While the saint and his cult have been researched comprehensively in Germany and France, his cult in the British Isles proves to be fairly unexplored. Andre Mertens closes this gap for Anglo-Saxon England by editing all the age’s surviving texts on the saint, including a commentary and translations. Moreover, Mertens looks beyond the horizon of the surviving body of literary relics and dedicates an introductory study to an analysis of the saint’s cult in Anglo-Saxon England and his significance for Anglo-Saxon culture.

Representations of the Body in Middle English Biblical Drama

Representations of the Body in Middle English Biblical Drama
Author: Estella Ciobanu
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2018-07-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3319909185

Representations of the Body in Middle English Biblical Drama combines epistemological enquiry, gender theory and Foucauldian concepts to investigate the body as a useful site for studying power, knowledge and truth. Intertwining the conceptualizations of violence and the performativity of gender identity and roles, Estella Ciobanu argues that studying violence in drama affords insights into the cultural and social aspects of the later Middle Ages. The text investigates these biblical plays through the perspective of the devil and offers a unique lens that exposes medieval disquiets about Christian teachings and the discourse of power. Through detailed primary source analysis and multidisciplinary scholarship, Ciobanu constructs a text that interrogates the significance of performance far beyond the stage.

The Landscape of Lexicography

The Landscape of Lexicography
Author: Alina Villalva
Publisher: Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa - Centro de Línguas, Literaturas e Culturas da universidade de Aveiro
Total Pages: 366
Release: 2019-08-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9899866652

This book consists of a series of papers that look at three different aspects of the landscape as seen in dictionaries from across Europe. Multilingual diachronic case studies into lexicographical descriptions of flora, landscape features and colours concentrate on three supposedly simple words: daisies (Bellis perenis L.), hills and the colour red. The work is part of the ongoing LandLex initiative, originally developed as part of the COST ENeL - European Network for e-Lexicography - action. The group brings together researchers in lexicography and lexicology from across Europe and is dedicated to studying multilingual and diachronic issues in language. It aims to valorise the wealth of European language diversity as found in dictionaries by developing and testing new digital annotation tools and a historical morphological dictionary prototype. Funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union

From Hesiod to Saussure, from Hippocrates to Jevons

From Hesiod to Saussure, from Hippocrates to Jevons
Author: Jens Høyrup
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2024
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 3031515145

This book is the third of a three-volume set introducing the history of scientific thought (including social and human science). The area covered in this volume is Western Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries. Combining general descriptions with extensive excerpts from original sources in English translation, it concentrates on ways of thinking and actual argumentation and not just on results and mistakes; questions of validity are primarily dealt with in the perspective of the time of the writing, not on that of the 21st century. The work is of great interest to historians of science and culture, students as well as seasoned workers – but also for amateurs willing to invest the necessary serious efforts.

Culture: A Drama of Nature and Person

Culture: A Drama of Nature and Person
Author: Piotr Jaroszyński
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2023-12-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004691189

This monograph represents a rare, classical-philosophical approach to culture. It is grounded in philosophical realism and emphasizes personalism as a true achievement of philosophical anthropology. Employing the apparatus of the history of philosophy, science and religion, the author demonstrates the immense scope of the drama unfolding within human culture. In a classical approach, evaluation is inevitable—with regard to various theories of culture, human culture as such, and all its main actors. Jaroszyński’s work shows that realistic study of what it means to be a human person leads to the most comprehensive understanding of culture as it is and should be.