The Lexical Domain of Beauty and its Metaphors in the Anglo-Saxon Formulaic Style

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by Francisco Javier Minaya Gomez

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Book Series Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature

ISBN-10 3631855850

ISBN-13 9783631855850

Edition New

Publisher Peter Lang AG

Imprint Peter Lang AG

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Sep 30th, 2021

Print length 274 Pages

Weight 427 grams

Product Classification: Historical & comparative linguistics Poetry

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This monograph offers an analysis of the lexical domain of beauty and other additional lexical domains that are figuratively used to refer to beauty, highlighting their central role in the Anglo-Saxon formulaic style.

"This monograph offers an analysis of the lexical domain of beauty and other additional lexical domains that are figuratively used to refer to beauty, highlighting their central role in the Anglo-Saxon formulaic style. Using different methods from computational and cognitive linguistics, this study is aimed at determining the exact semantic value of these terms, detecting possible patterns of metaphorization and metonymization and identifying strategies behind their usage, ultimately determining how beauty was conceptualised and experienced in early Medieval England and in its literature. This research evidences the importance of this aesthetic idea in the Old English poetry and its aesthetic paradigm and revealing the core associations between beauty and other religious and social ideas"--

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