In:Sociocultural Dimensions of Lexis and Text in the History of English
Edited by Peter Petré, Hubert Cuyckens and Frauke D'hoedt
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 343] 2018
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 4 July 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/cilt.343.toc
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Table of contents
Foreword
Introduction: Philology as linguistically informed cultural history
Peter Petré
Hubert Cuyckens
Part 1.Conspicuous lexical choice in past societies
Chapter 1.Old English ead in Anglo-Saxon given names: A comparative approach to Anglo-Saxon anthroponomy
Olga Khallieva Boiché
Chapter 2.
News and relations
: Highlighted textual labels in the titles of early modern news pamphlets
Carla Suhr
Chapter 3.“… all spirits, and are melted into air, into thin air”: Metaphorical connections in the history of English
Marc Alexander
Christian Kay
Part 2.Historical layers in text and genre
Chapter 4.Conservatism and innovation in Anglo-Saxon scribal practice
Christine Wallis
Chapter 5.Old English wills: A genre study
Lilo Moessner
Chapter 6.Spatio-temporal systems in Chaucer
Minako Nakayasu
Chapter 7.“A riddle to myself I am”: Argument shifting in English congregational song between 1500 and 1900
Kirsten Gather
Part 3.Lexis, morphology, and a changing society
Chapter 8.Common to the North of England and to New England: British English regionalisms in John Russell Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms
Javier Ruano-García
Chapter 9.
Betwixt, amongst, and amidst
: The diachronic development of function words with final /st/
Ryuichi Hotta
Chapter 10.English word clipping in a diachronic perspective
Donka Minkova
Index
