Maid in Cornwall

IF 0.8 4区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

English World-Wide Pub Date : 2022-10-31 DOI:10.1075/eww.22013.san

Rhys J. Sandow

引用次数: 3

Abstract

While the research literature on regional dialect levelling is substantial (e.g. Williams and Kerswill 1999; Britain 2002; Watt 2002; Jansen 2019), this process is under-explored and under-theorised when it comes to patterns of lexical usage. Using maid as a case-study, in this article I provide a detailed account of processes of lexical levelling in Cornwall. I consider the usage of maid from two perspectives, that of onomasiology and semasiology. From an onomasiological perspective, maid, as a variant of the concept woman, exhibits socio-stylistic reallocation, with attested usages of maid in this study being limited to older speakers in careful speech styles. From a semasiological perspective, two senses of maid, ‘woman’ and ‘female servant or attendant’, have undergone structural reallocation in apparent-time with maid ‘woman’ being the prototypical sense for older speakers but a more peripheral sense for their younger counterparts.

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康沃尔郡的女仆

虽然关于地区方言水平的研究文献是大量的（例如，Williams和Kerswill 1999；英国2002；瓦特2002；詹森2019），但在词汇使用模式方面，这一过程被低估和理论化。本文以maid为例，详细介绍了康沃尔郡词汇水平化的过程。我从经济学和语义学两个角度来看待女仆的用法。从经济学的角度来看，女仆作为女性概念的变体，表现出社会风格的重新分配，本研究中女仆的使用仅限于谨慎说话风格的年长说话者。从语义学的角度来看，女仆的两种意义，“女人”和“女仆人或侍从”，在明显的时间里经历了结构上的重新分配，女仆“女人”是年长说话者的原型意义，但对年轻说话者来说是一种更为边缘的意义。

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