
Synonyms of Fallen Woman in the History of the English Language.
Title:
Synonyms of Fallen Woman in the History of the English Language.
Author:
Duda, Bozena.
ISBN:
9783653031409
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1 online resource (229 pages)
Series:
Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature ; v.45
Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature
Contents:
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- List of Abbreviations -- Typographic Conventions -- 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 -- 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 An outline of cultural variation 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 -- 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 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 theconceptual 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 -- Conclusions -- Index -- References.
Abstract:
This data-oriented study aims at providing an onomasiological account of the historical synonyms of the term fallen woman from Old English up to Early Modern English. It focuses on linguistic mechanisms which are at work in the formation of euphemisms and dysphemisms semantically linked to the conceptual category Fallen Woman. Additionally, the book highlights the historical and cultural variations in the approach to sex relations in different parts of the world and in different epochs. The cognitive methodological apparatus is the core of the analytical part of the work. The results of the axiologically oriented analysis point to the prevailing tendency of female-specific lexical items to undergo the process of pejoration with the passage of time.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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