Sökning: "lexical semantic change"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 15 uppsatser innehållade orden lexical semantic change.

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

    Kandidat-uppsats, Umeå universitet/Institutionen för språkstudier

    Författare :Sandra Andersson; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Lexical semantics; meaning; synonyms; semantic widening; metaphor; metonymy;

    Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Mot en semantisk karta för kontinuativer i germanska språk

    Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik

    Författare :Wilma Syrén; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Phasal polarity; continuity; Germanic languages; corpus; semantic maps; polysemy; Faspolaritet; kontinuitet; germanska språk; korpus; semantiska kartor; polysemi;

    Sammanfattning : Denna uppsats undersöker kontinuativer i elva germanska språk genom en kvantitiv och kvalitativ analys av korpusdata. Syftet är att undersöka om den lexikala förändring som beskrivs hos kontinuativer i svenska av Britse (2022) kan observeras i andra germanska språk. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Exploring the effect of stimulus list composition on the Cognate Facilitation Effect in bilingual lexical decision : A study of Danish-Swedish bilinguals

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för svenska och flerspråkighet

    Författare :Revekka Christina Anagnostopoulou; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Cognate facilitation effect; cognates; interlingual homographs; stimulus list composition; BIA ; Age of Acquisition; lexical decision; bilingualism;

    Sammanfattning : Cognate words have a shared orthographic and semantic representation across languages: kniv (‘knife’) in Danish means the same as kniv in Swedish. Their shared form and meaning give cognates a special status in the bilingual mental lexicon and there is robust evidence that because of this special status they are processed faster than non-cognate words. LÄS MER

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

    Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

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

    Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER

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

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan Väst/Institutionen för individ och samhälle

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

    Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER