Semantic change and knowledge transmission: Some case studies in the distribution of words in ECCO.
This article attempts to make good on the affordances of lexical co-association to investigate semantic change in the British eighteenth-century corpus, mindful of the theories of knowledge that have been presented in an adumbrated state above. Pulling back to enquire into the whole of the eighteent...
| Publicado en: | Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 37; no. 4; pp. 1141 - 1157 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Dec2022
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