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Subject(s)

• English language—Gender [Browse]
• English language—Synonyms and antonyms [Browse]
• English language—Grammar, Historical [Browse]
• Historical linguistics [Browse]

Series

• Studies in English medieval language and literature Bd. 45. [More in this series]
• Studies in English medieval language and literature, 1436-7521 ; Vol. 45 [More in this series]

Notes

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Rzeszow.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-225) and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Machine-generated contents note: ch. One On the Nature of Euphemism
• 1.1. Euphemism: In search of definition
• 1.1.1. Language restrictions
• 1.1.2. Building euphemistic blocks over taboo
• 1.1.3. The category of X-phemism: Pizza or the melting pot?
• 1.1.4. Concluding remarks
• 1.2. Mechanisms behind X-phemisms
• 1.2.1. Structural tools
• 1.2.2. Semantic tools
• 1.2.3. Rhetorical tools
• 1.2.4. Syntactic/Grammatical tools
• 1.2.5. Concluding remarks
• 1.3. Context as a disambiguating factor in the interpretation of X-phemism
• 1.3.1. X-phemism and context
• 1.3.2. Extralinguistic context in the act of X-phemism disambiguation
• ch. Two On the Specifics of Sexual Relations in the History of Mankind with Due Reference to Sex for Sale
• 2.1. Conceptualisation of sex, gender and sexuality
• 2.2. Historical variations in conceptualisation of sex relations
• 2.2.1. From Antique all-going permissiveness to Victorian restrictiveness
• 2.2.2. The sexual revolution of the 20th-century
• 2.3. Cultural variations in conceptualisation of sex relations
• 2.3.1. Anglo-Saxon
• 2.3.2. Romance
• 2.3.3. Germanic
• 2.3.4. Slavonic
• 2.3.5. Non-Indo-European
• 2.4. Concluding remarks
• ch. Three Panchronic Developments of the Lexical Items Linked to the Conceptual Category Fallen Woman
• 3.1. On the internal organisation of the conceptual category Fallen Woman
• 3.1.1. Historical foundations of the intricacies in the structure of the conceptual category Fallen Woman
• 3.2. Historical growth of the lexical items linked to the conceptual category Fallen Woman
• 3.2.1. Formative historical mechanisms employed in the coinage of lexical items linked to the conceptual category Fallen Woman
• 3.3. Methodology contour
• 3.4. Old English X-phemisms linked to the conceptual category Fallen Woman
• 3.5. Middle English X-phemisms linked to the conceptual category Fallen Woman
• 3.5.1. Middle English synonyms and structural tools
• 3.5.2. Middle English synonyms and semantic tools
• 3.5.3. Middle English rhetorical tools at work
• 3.6. Early Modern English X-phemisms linked to the conceptual category Fallen Woman
• 3.6.1. Early Modern English metaphorically-based X-phemisms
• 3.6.2. Early Modern English metonymy conditioned synonyms
• 3.6.3. Early Modern English and the mechanism of understatement at work
• 3.6.4. Early Modern English borrowing
• 3.6.5. The role of eponymy in Early Modern English
• 3.6.6. Early Modern English working of circumlocution
• 3.6.7. Early Modern English employment of morphological derivation.

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ISBN

• 9783631644508 (hardbound)
• 9783653031409 (ebook)

OCLC

880929658

RCP

H - S

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