A study of nautical terms and their use in everyday language
Year: 2015 Language: English Author: Pérez S.M., Chaplin C.A. Genre: Dictionary Publisher: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 54 Description: This study analysed fifteen expressions of nautical origin, proved their current usage in written English and explained some possible processes that lead to their validity in everyday language. This was accomplished through linguistic analyses of the idioms and of examples in use, and through linguistic theory. The study consists of four sections which, in order of appearance, are a historical contextualisation, a study of the origin and the meaning of fifteen nautical expressions, an analysis of the terminology through real examples in everyday language, and a linguistic explanation of the processes of change in language. These analyses and explanations revealed that some terms of eighteenth-century nautical jargon are still in use in everyday written English, that some of these expressions are used in a wider range of registers than dictionaries state, and that one of the possible explanations for the language spread is ‘lexical diffusion’. This study also points to the possibility that some of the expressions under study might fall into disuse and suggested further research on the nautical influence in everyday spoken English.
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A study of nautical terms and their use in everyday language
Language: English
Author: Pérez S.M., Chaplin C.A.
Genre: Dictionary
Publisher: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 54
Description: This study analysed fifteen expressions of nautical origin, proved their current usage in written English and explained some possible processes that lead to their validity in everyday language. This was accomplished through linguistic analyses of the idioms and of examples in use, and through linguistic theory. The study consists of four sections which, in order of appearance, are a historical contextualisation, a study of the origin and the meaning of fifteen nautical expressions, an analysis of the terminology through real examples in everyday language, and a linguistic explanation of the processes of change in language. These analyses and explanations revealed that some terms of eighteenth-century nautical jargon are still in use in everyday written English, that some of these expressions are used in a wider range of registers than dictionaries state, and that one of the possible explanations for the language spread is ‘lexical diffusion’. This study also points to the possibility that some of the expressions under study might fall into disuse and suggested further research on the nautical influence in everyday spoken English.
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