Semantic traces of social interaction from antiquity to early modern times : historical conversatio / by Seraina Plotke ; translated by Laura Radosh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Plotke, Seraina, author.

Contributor:

Radosh, Laura, translator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Latin language--Etymology.

Latin language.

Semantics, Historical.

Semantics, Comparative.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 103 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

There are many methods that use historical semantic analysis as the key to unlocking an understanding of past epochs, concepts in the humanities, and socio-historical events, including: conceptual history, lexicometry and socio-historical discourse semantics. As diverse as these approaches are, stemming as they do from varying academic traditions, together they have proven that language is more than just a passive medium to transport meaning. Words and their meanings on the one hand, and the changes in those meanings on the other, influence socio-cultural structures, orders of knowledge, ideologies, and mentalities. In turn, socio-political achievements, ideological orientation, novel ways of thinking, and modifications of scientific knowledge and cultural practices inform and change the way words are used, leading to neologisms and semantic shifts as well as to expanded or narrowed meanings. Tracing the changes in the meaning of conversatio and its modern language derivatives, this book illustrates the productivity of historical semantic analysis for cultural studies.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

Chapter I

Chapter II

Chapter III

Chapter IV

Chapter V

Chapter VI

Chapter VII

Chapter VIII

Chapter IX

Chapter X

Chapter XI

Bibliography.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5275-0987-7

OCLC:

1032000877