Essays about: "Lexical Semantics"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 29 essays containing the words Lexical Semantics.

  1. 1. Change in the Meaning of the Word Cool : A study comparing the 1890s, the 1950s and the 2010s

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

    Author : Sandra Andersson; [2023]
    Keywords : Lexical semantics; meaning; synonyms; semantic widening; metaphor; metonymy;

    Abstract : The aim of this thesis was to study change in the meaning of the word cool, comparing the 1890s, the 1950s and the 2010s. Examples where the word cool was used were obtained from the Corpus of Historical American English, which is created by Mark Davies, and analyzed in terms of in which senses and text types they were used. READ MORE

  3. 2. Sense and Sensitivity: Exploring how Neural Machine Translation Systems Handle Slurs

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori

    Author : Tom Södahl Bladsjö; [2022-08-12]
    Keywords : Machine Translation; Descriptive Translation Studies; Slurs; Sensitive Language; Offensive Language; Lexical Semantics;

    Abstract : The rise of streaming platforms such as Netflix and HBO has brought a surge in audiovisual content to be translated. While the translation industry at large have adopted machine translation (MT) as a tool to meet the rising demands, the subtitling industry has been reluctant to embrace this trend. READ MORE

  4. 3. Semantic change and the description of disability : A diachronic corpus study of lame, crippled, handicapped, and disabled

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Andreas Johansson; [2022]
    Keywords : corpus of historical american english; euphemism; language change; lexical change; pejoration; semantics;

    Abstract : With data from the Corpus of Historical American English, this study charts the semantic development of lame, crippled, handicapped, and disabled from the 1900s to the 2010s. Using both qualitative concordance line examination and frequency data, it attempts to determine what types of change have occurred in American English (as represented by COHA) within each adjective. READ MORE

  5. 4. “Harsh realities” and “tender gazes”: Do perceptual extensions function metaphorically or literally? : A corpus-based investigation of haptic adjectives and the “extent of the literal”

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Esme Richardson-Owen; [2022]
    Keywords : cognitive linguistics; cognitive semantics; perceptual metaphor; lexical metaphor; double-function adjectives;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates how perceptual adjectives are used to convey non-perceptual experience. The study is corpus-based, and the material consists of adjective-noun pairs in which the premodifying adjective is derived from the haptic modality. READ MORE

  6. 5. A Study of Semantic Change in the Word viral

    University essay from Högskolan Väst/Institutionen för individ och samhälle

    Author : Eldar Jusovic; [2022]
    Keywords : Semantics; Semantic change; Diachronic change; Corpus; Collocation; Context analysis; viral; WWW; dictionaries;

    Abstract : With diachronic corpus over the time periods, I selected a word that might be suitable for this type of study for detecting if potential semantic changes have occurred. In this study, I explored the lexical semantics of the word viral to see if the World Wide Web (WWW) has influenced the word. READ MORE