Lexical Variation and Knowledge Construction across Historical, Methodological, and Cultural Ecologies
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Lexical Variation and Knowledge Construction across Historical, Methodological, and Cultural Ecologies provides a comprehensive examination of the intricate interplay between language and knowledge, viewing words not as mere vessels but as dynamic agents that sculpt our understanding of the world. Contributions of leading scholars from linguistics, lexicography, and related disciplines are presented in a tripartite structure —historical, methodological, and sociocultural—, illustrating how this interplay unfolds across diverse contexts, from the depths of historical lexicography to methodological innovation and sociocultural analyses of language and identity. Drawing on a wide range of data sources and analytical frameworks, its multidimensional perspective on the interaction between language and cognition make this book a crucial resource for both scholars and learners, inviting readers to rethink the very foundations of how we communicate and understand our reality.
[Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice, 25] Expected June 2026. vi, 330 pp. + index
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Table of Contents
- Lexical variation and knowledge constructionRossella Latorraca, Rita Calabrese and Jacqueline Aiello | pp. 1–19
- Part I. Knowledge construction over time: Lexical variation within historical ecologies
- Terminological variation and change across the German translations of Lanfranc of Milan’s Chirurgia parvaChiara Benati and Marialuisa Caparrini | pp. 22–39
- Contact-induced lexical variation and knowledge (re)construction: The case of early Diaspora Serbian in the USAJelena Vujić and Aleksandar Milanović | pp. 40–56
- Brazilian indigenous loanwords in Bluteau’s Vocabulario portugues e latinoAlina Villalva, Esperança Cardeira and Laura do Carmo | pp. 57–71
- Cawdrey’s lexicographical practice: Its historical continuance and developmentKusujiro Miyoshi | pp. 72–87
- Usury or interest? Reconstructing early modern English economics discourse (1572–1664) via historical corpus linguisticsRemo Appolloni | pp. 88–105
- Part II. Probing change: Lexical variation and knowledge construction within methodological ecologies
- Quantifying lexical variation in Dutch: Case studies in lexical lectometryDirk Geeraerts | pp. 108–122
- Usage labelling in the Diccionario da Língua Portugueza by Morais Silva: A study of linguistic variation and knowledge constructionAna Salgado, Rute Costa, Laurent Romary, Toma Tasovac, Anas Fahad Khan, Mohamed Khemakhem, Margarida Ramos, Bruno Almeida, Sara Carvalho and Raquel Silva | pp. 123–141
- Lessico Etimologico Italiano – Germanismi: Glances from the back shop of a lexicographical projectElda Morlicchio | pp. 142–155
- Lexical variation across time and contact ecologies: A comparative corpus-assisted investigation of multiword constructions in Indian English and Australian Aboriginal EnglishRita Calabrese and Katherine E. Russo | pp. 156–178
- Lexical frequency effects on language variationCarmen Ciancia, Peter L. Patrick and Pasquale Esposito | pp. 179–196
- Accessibility in public health: An analysis of two US-based plain language lexicographical resourcesJacqueline Aiello | pp. 197–217
- Part III. Clashes of wor(l)ds: Lexical variation and knowledge construction within sociocultural ecologies
- Disciplinary moulds and epistemological clashes: The historical lexicography of Austrian German and Canadian EnglishStefan Dollinger | pp. 220–241
- Medical lexicon and gender ideologies in nineteenth-century British periodicals: The pathologisation of the female body and mind in The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1805–1855)Annalisa Federici | pp. 242–257
- Metaphoricide: The death of heuristic metaphors in molecular biology and crosslinguistic epistemic implicationsRossella Latorraca | pp. 258–282
- Metaphorical conceptualisations of inflation in English and Romanian: A corpus-based analysisMaria-Crina Herţeg | pp. 283–302
- Morphemic phrasemes in German: The case of particle verbsValentina Schettino | pp. 303–318
- Biographical notes | pp. 319–327