IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 519: More than Words: New Approaches to Historical Semantics, I
Tuesday 7 July 2015, 09.00-10.30
| Sponsor: | Historisches Seminar, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main |
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| Organisers: | Tim Geelhaar, Historisches Seminar, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main Roland Scheel, Skandinavisches Seminar, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen |
| Moderator/Chair: | Tim Geelhaar, Historisches Seminar, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main |
| Paper 519-a | Alms to the Poor in Merovingian Society? (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Language and Literature - Latin, Political Thought, Social History |
| Paper 519-b | Women, Communication, and Power in the Language of Carolingian Charters (Language: English) Index terms: Charters and Diplomatics, Computing in Medieval Studies, Political Thought, Women's Studies |
| Paper 519-c | Between History and Mythological Past: Semantic Change in Saxo Grammaticus's Gesta Danorum (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Historiography - Medieval, Language and Literature - Latin, Language and Literature - Scandinavian |
| Abstract | The label 'historical semantics' covers a large variety of methodological departures and procedures; they all aim at the analysis of the generation, transmission and development of meaning. Hitherto, studies in the development of semantic change on a word-level have only been possible on a micro-semantic level. During the last years, however, computational tools have been developed, which allow new approaches to the analysis and comparison of bigger text corpora. The papers presented in two sections sound out the potential of computerised historical semantics for social history, cultural history as well as the history of linguistics, ideas, and politics. |