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Historisms as Part of English Archaic Lexis
- Authors: Sheveleva E.O.1
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Affiliations:
- Moscow State Linguistic University
- Issue: No 10(904) (2025)
- Pages: 115-123
- Section: Linguistics
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2542-2197/article/view/352408
- ID: 352408
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Abstract
The aim of the research is to develop a methodology of selecting English archaic lexis, as well as identifying lexical units as belonging to one of the groups of archaic lexis. The material for the research is a corpus of English lexical units labelled as archaic or obsolete, taken by means of overall selection from The Random House College Dictionary. To fulfill the aim, the author uses the definitional analysis, the etymological analysis, and the elements of the contextual analysis. The research results in presenting a three-step methodology of selecting and analyzing archaic language material, as well as in establishing a set of obligatory criteria for archaic lexical units to be considered as historisms.
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Evgeniia Olegovna Sheveleva
Moscow State Linguistic University
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Email: shevelev28@mail.ru
PhD in Philology, Associate Professor, Head of the Department of English Stylistics, Faculty of the English Language
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