IMC 2015: Sessions
Session 619: More than Words: New Approaches to Historical Semantics, II
Tuesday 7 July 2015, 11.15-12.45
| 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: | Roland Scheel, Skandinavisches Seminar, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen |
| Paper 619-a | The Vocabulary of Conversion in Carolingian Times (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Ecclesiastical History, Language and Literature - Latin, Political Thought |
| Paper 619-b | Linguistic and Textual Variation for Register Profiling in Merovingian Hagiography (Language: English) Index terms: Computing in Medieval Studies, Language and Literature - Latin, Literacy and Orality |
| 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. |