Essays about: "Lexical Meaning as Ontologies and Construals LOC"

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  1. 1. Semantic Change in Words Loaned to Swedish

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Björn Torstensson; [2014]
    Keywords : English; French; diachrony; Middle Low German; Swedish; loanwords; metonymization; metaphorization; Lexical Meaning as Ontologies and Construals LOC ; Cognitive semantics; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the diachronic semantic development in terms of metonymization and metaphorization for 30 nouns loaned into the Swedish language between the 13th and 20th centuries from a cognitive-semantic point of view. Through the framework of Lexical Meaning as Ontologies and Construals (LOC) combined with a study of the occurrence of metaphorization, metonymization, widening and narrowing in semantic development, it examines to what extent metonymization can be said to be a more common mechanism of lexical semantic change than metaphorization, and to what extent words lose semantic width initially after the loaning period and then regain it over time. READ MORE