The changing semantics of happy and glorious after the English Revolution of 1688: A corpus-assisted discourse study
My paper takes as its focus the semantic variation of the pre-modifying adjectives happy and glorious which resulted from the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the subsequent triumphal representation of Britain as a champion of freedom and emancipation. By adopting principles of corpus-assisted discou...
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University of Bologna
2023-10-01
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| Series: | MediAzioni |
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| Online Access: | https://mediazioni.unibo.it/article/view/16275 |