Historicism (Linguistics)
Historicism , also historicism , is a linguistic term for a word that denotes something that no longer exists in today's world, e.g. B. vassal , telegraph office , datasette , etc. In line with the development of the world, the words that designate them often become historicisms in a lengthy process, currently a word like a rotary dial . In contrast to archaisms such as Maid , Oheim or sintemal , historicisms are not out of date, but are still alive in current usage. They are only used in statements about the past and are therefore partly only familiar to experts (e.g. historians); In this usage, however, in contrast to archaisms, there is no alternative to historicism: there is no 'more modern' word for vassal, whereas a medieval girl is not referred to as a maiden in historical discourse either .
See also
- Historicism (disambiguation)
literature
- Bodo Mrozek , Lexicon of Threatened Words , Reinbek: Rowohlt 2005. ISBN 3499620774
- Nabil Osman (ed.): Small lexicon of vanished words , word extinction since the end of the 18th century. 13th, unchanged edition, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-45997-8
- Oskar Reichmann: Dictionaries of archaic and lost words. In: Hausmann / Reichmann / Wiegand / Zgusta (eds.), Dictionaries. Dictionaries. Dictionnaires. An international handbook on lexicography. Part 2, Berlin / New York: de Gruyter, 1990, pp. 1153-1158
