Interestingly, while the rhetorical tradition had looked at tropes as devices whose investigation was motivated by stylistic concerns, historical-philological semantics regarded the psychological mechanisms underlying the production and the comprehension of figures of speech as part of the ordinary life of languages, and as engines of the evolution of all aspects of lexical systems (Nerlich 1992).
Probably not and in any case, the latest allegations concern historical, not current abuses.
His research interests concern historical sociology, labor history, and conceptual history.
I am excited to be helping develop the Princeton Prosody Archive (1750-1923), an innovative digital collection of over 10,000 texts concerning historical poetics and prosody.
Their activity concerned historical researches, laser scanning survey, non-destructive tests on masonry structures, inspections and tests on roof timber structures, identification of structural damage, analysis of plasters and mosaics.
The system was developed for the humanities and the arts, which seldom find their way to a binding, irrefutable statement concerning historical documents and monuments.
Reducing uncertainty concerning historical emissions from the land-use sector is also important [18], particularly reducing uncertainty concerning emissions from deforestation, forest degradation, forest carbon stocks, and peat land conversion.
Although it was not widely noticed at the time, it did have an impact on the thinking of R.G. Collingwood, whose epistemology of history, like Bradley's, evinces a certain scepticism concerning historical facts and the authority of testimony, and it has had a considerable subsequent influence.
Two articles concerning historical malaria occurrence in Finland had the longest time span, 210 and 70 years, respectively.
