Search results for "diachronic"
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The spoken core of British English: a diachronic analysis based on the BNC
2008
This research takes as its starting point a frequency analysis of the demographicspoken subcorpus of the British National Corpus in order to focus on two aspects of the evolution of spoken core vocabulary in British English. The first is the impact on the core of contact with other languages and, the second, the role of lexical innovation and/or replacement in the history of this core. Our analysis, which, to a certain extent, follows up on that carried out in Fuster (2007) questions the hypothesis that the spoken core is immune to foreign influence or that it is highly resistant to change. pennock@uv.es; fuster@uv.es
Complémentarité des données de télédétection pour l'analyse des transformations de l'occupation du sol dans des zones humides urbaines. Application a…
2008
International audience; Dans le cadre d'un programme ECOS-Nord, notre étude analyse les transformations récentes de l'occupation du sol sur deux zones humides urbaines : les hortillonnages d'Amiens et les chinampas de Mexico. Malgré des contextes différents, ces deux espaces sont les supports d'usages et de dynamiques très similaires : des techniques identiques d'agriculture sur l'eau et un déclin de l'activité agricole au XXe siècle au profit de celle des loisirs. L'objectif est double : identifier et quantifier les changements sur chacun des sites, puis les confronter de façon à mettre en évidence les points communs et les spécificités locales, tant dans la nature des changements, que dan…
Epistemic Modality Markers in European and American Law Journals
2013
Over the last decades the attention of scholars working in the filed of social sciences has been directed towards language variation, and discourse analysis has increasingly evolved as a valuable way of understanding the use of language in a variety of academic, institutional and professional settings (Clyne 1994; Flowerdew & Gotti 2006; Bhatia et al. 2008). According to the sociolinguist approach, genres become ‘dynamically rhetorical structures’ that can be manoeuvred according to the discipline’s norms, values and ideology, both historically and incrementally changing as disciplinary knowledge and genres required and created by discourse communities’ change (Bhatia 2004; Hyland 2004,…
¿Quién tiene miedo del pasado? La relación con la historia de la demo-etno-antropología italiana entre los siglos xix y xx
2019
The construction of the past and its periodic reaffirmation are fundamental moments of the construction of identity, both individual and collective, and are, therefore, the object of more or less conscious decisions and manipulations by groups and individuals. It is only through the diachronic analysis of cultural responses to human problems that certain spatial and temporal continuities of ritual forms, beliefs and symbols that justify it are clarified; it is not only at the level of the mere succession of phenomena, because of the signifiers, nor of the only sociological analysis that they possess and the attention of those who seek the reasons for being in the future must be concentrated…
Tracking the change in an Institutional Genre: A Diachronic Corpus-based study of White House Press Briefings
2013
The aim of the paper is to study the evolution of the language of the specific genre of white house press briefings across 18 years. Phraseologies will be taken into consideration in order to compare and contrast the language of the 'podium' during three different administrations: Clinton, Bush and Obama.
Diachrony and Neology: Semantic Change, Subjectivization and the Representation of Thinking. The Meaning of the Catalan Verb Esmar, from ‘Setting the…
2015
L’estudi de la neologia és indestriable de l’estudi del canvi lingüístic i, doncs, de la diacronia. Ens proposem ací descriure el procés de canvi semàntic que va experimentar el verb esmar, forma patrimonial del llatí *adaestimare, paral·lela del cultisme estimar. Aquesta recerca es fonamenta en l’aprofitament dels corpus textuals i altres materials despullats manualment. Sobre aquests materials, s’ha assajat l’anàlisi de la subjectivació i de les inferències que proposa la teoria de la inferència invitada del canvi semàntic (= TIICS). The study of neology is inextricably linked with the study of language change and, therefore, with diachrony. The aim of this paper is to describe the semant…
The urban regeneration of the peripheral areas. The case study of Tor Vergata (Rome, Italy)
2018
The ‘Urban Regeneration of Peripheral Areas’ workshop experimented with an innovative design model for the urban regeneration of Rome. The working method of the workshop is based on diachronic analysis of the evolution of the combined natural history and culture of the area, the architectural, technological, environmental and landscape situation and relation-ship with the surrounding territory. The workshop dealt with the mutual relationships, which run through and characterise the dimensional and relational scales of the environments of metropolitan ecosystems as structures and landscapes. The strategy for urban and territorial integration is left to the procedures and policies of the comm…