Sökning: "semantic widening"

Hittade 4 uppsatser innehållade orden semantic widening.

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. Bug Report: A Study of Semantic Change during the Digital Revolution

   Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Författare :Johan Andersson; [2020]
   Nyckelord :Semantics; Diachronic change; Semantic Change; Corpus; Collocation; Context analysis.;

   Sammanfattning : Semantic change is a phenomenon that has been subject to a lot of research during the past few decades. However, a large part of the existing research has been conducted with the goal of finding causes of change or creating typologies in order to classify different types of changes. LÄS MER

4. 3. Semantic Change in Words Loaned to Swedish

   Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

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

   Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER

5. 4. Functional shift and semantic change in Lord of the Rings Online

   Kandidat-uppsats, Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation

   Författare :Susanne Norlin; [2013]
   Nyckelord :Semantic change; functional shift; LotRO; MMORPG; English; pejoration; word formation process; metaphorical extension; amelioration; widening; denominal verbs.;

   Sammanfattning : The purpose of this essay is to identify functional shifts and semantic changes in the Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game Lord of the Rings Online. The focus is on new uses of established terms in Standard English and the intent is to see how the word formation processes work in an online gaming environment, and identify the possible reasons behind them. LÄS MER