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This volume offers new insights into figurative language and its pervasive role as a factor of linguistic change. The case studies included in this book explore some of the different ways new metaphoric and metonymic expressions emerge and spread among speech communities, and how these changes can be related to the need to encode ongoing social and cultural processes in the language. They cover a wide series of languages and historical stages.

Lexicology. Semantics --- Sociolinguistics --- Metaphor --- Metonyms --- Figures of speech --- Linguistic change --- Sociolinguistics. --- Language and culture. --- Figures of speech. --- Linguistic change. --- Metaphor. --- Metonyms. --- Language and culture --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Culture and language --- Language and languages --- Language and society --- Society and language --- Sociology of language --- Change, Linguistic --- Language change --- English language --- Imagery --- Speech, Figures of --- Tropes --- Metonymy --- Parabole --- Social aspects --- Sociological aspects --- Culture --- Linguistics --- Sociology --- Integrational linguistics (Oxford school) --- Historical linguistics --- Rhetoric --- Symbolism --- Reification --- Cognitive Linguistics. --- Figurative Language. --- Linguistic Change.

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The studies presented in this volume concentrate on different aspects of the medical, scientific and technical varieties of early English used in a wide range of medieval manuscripts. As the growing body of research published in recent years has shown, analysing the language of specialised texts is an opportunity to obtain access to the early history and vernacularisation of learned writing styles. It is an area of study in which all the contributors have considerable expertise, which affords them to present data findings while discussing important methodological issues. In addition, in most cases data derive from specially-designed ‘second-generation’ corpora, reflecting state-of-the-art approaches to historical linguistics, discourse analysis and pragmatics. Theoretical issues concerning the digital edition of medical and scientific texts, their role in social network analysis, and their value in the identification of dialectal specific traits are highlighted by the authors.

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Sense and Feeling in Daily Living in the Early Medieval English World seeks to illuminate important aspects of daily living and the experience of the environment through sense and emotion, using archaeological, art and textual sources. Twelve papers explore sight, sound, taste, smell, touch, and emotions such as anger, horror, grief and joy. Similar in theme and method to the first, second and third volumes in the Daily Living in the Anglo-Saxon World series, the collected articles illuminate how an understanding of the sensory and emotional landscape that helped form the daily lives of the peoples and the environments of early medieval England can inform the study of England before the Norman Conquest. The sights, smells, and sounds that informed the physical and emotional landscape of town, scriptoria, and hall, for example, explain urban planning, literary imagery and emotional attachment evident among the early medieval English peoples. Experienced senses and emotions are thus as central to understanding the inner and outer landscape of the pre-Conquest English as crafts, towns or water structures.

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