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Words for Feelings: Studies in the History of the English Emotion Lexicon

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Title: Words for Feelings
Subtitle: Studies in the History of the English Emotion Lexicon
Series Title: Anglistische Forschungen, 446

Publication Year: 2014
Publisher: ISD, Distributor of Scholarly Books
http://www.isdistribution.com

Book URL: https://www.isdistribution.com/BookDetail.aspx?aId=54534

Author: Hans-Jürgen Diller

Hardback: ISBN:  9783825363598 Pages: 446 Price: U.S. $ 93.00

Abstract:

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. (Universitätsverlag Winter 2014)