Interest in conceptual history was given a particular boost in the 20th century through the publication of the Historisches Wörterbuch der Philosophie, the Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe, and the journal Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte.
Alongside philosopher Joachim Ritter, historians Otto Brunner, Werner Conze, and Reinhart Koselleck, and sociologist Erich Rothacker are viewed as its pioneers in the German-speaking world and internationally.
Since the Eighties, a relevant development of the history of concepts (storia dei concetti), has been promoted by a numerous group of Italian scholars, counting among them Alessandro Biral, Giuseppe Duso, Carlo Galli [it], and Roberto Esposito, founders of the Centro di ricerca sul lessico politico europeo.
While the meanings of other seminal "keywords" such as "economics", "culture", or "modernity" evolved rather slowly and built upon a relatively continuous base, "globalization" has had a very short and discontinuous history.
[4] Kończal, Kornelia (2016), Czego możemy się nauczyć od Reinharta Kosellecka, czyli o potrzebie badania polskiej semantyki historycznej.