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Words for Feelings

Studies in the History of the English Emotion Lexicon, Anglistische Forschungen 446
ISBN/EAN: 9783825363598
Umbreit-Nr.: 6953512

Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: II, 446 S.
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Einband: gebundenes Buch

Erschienen am 30.07.2014
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    • The papers and articles united in this volume analyse the use of a selection of lexemes designating emotions in the history of English from Anglo-Saxon times to Late Modern English. An Introduction gives an account of the emotions in modern psychology and of the contribution of Historical Semantics to our understanding of their origins. A number of chapters discriminate the meanings of near-synonyms such as wrath/anger/tene or joy/bliss/mirth. Other chapters trace the emergence and demise of superordinate categories like mood, passion, and emotion. The analyses are largely based on closed computer-readable collections as they are accessible for Old, Middle, and Modern English. The more recent chapters aim at a balanced consideration of literary and non-literary genres and use a personal selection from more comprehensive repositories like Gutenberg, the Online Books Page, Google Books and the Internet Archive. To a large extent, that selection draws on traditional bibliographical tools.