Alison Findlay, Sean Murphy, Dawn Archer

The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language

Plays and Characters
Herausgeber: Culpeper, Jonathan

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Produktbeschreibung

The Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare's Language is the first comprehensive account of Shakespeare's language to use computational methods derived from corpus linguistics - methods of choice for today's historical linguist. Volume 3 focuses on keywords in Shakespeare's plays. Play keywords are derived by conducting a statistical comparison between the words in one play with those in all the other plays. For characters, the statistical comparison is made between the vocabulary of one character and that of all the other characters in the same play. These keywords are then used to create 'linguistic profiles' of each play and main character. The profiles show how patterns of words around keywords contribute to themes in plays and characterization of the protagonists. For example, we reveal how the simple word 'Goodnight' contributes to dramatic tension in Julius Caesar, or how in Romeo and Juliet, Juliet's most distinctive yet apparently innocuous words, 'if', 'yet' and 'but', create an important aspect of her character.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 768
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781350261938
• ISBN-10: 1350261939
• Artikelnr.: 69039652

Autorenporträt

Dawn Archer is Professor of Research and Knowledge Exchange Coordinator for Languages, Information and Communications at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Alison Findlay is Professor of Renaissance Drama and Director of the Shakespeare Programme in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Lancaster University, UK. Sean Murphy is a linguist interested in historical English drama. He was a Senior Research Associate on the Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language.

Inhaltsangabe

General Introduction to the Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language
Introduction to Volume 3 All's Well That Ends Well Antony and Cleopatra As
You Like It Comedy of Errors Coriolanus Cymbeline Hamlet Henry IV, Part 1
Henry IV, Part 2 Henry V Henry VI, Part 1 Henry VI, Part 2 Henry VI, Part 3
Henry VIII Julius Caesar King John King Lear Love's Labour's Lost Macbeth
Measure for Measure Merchant of Venice Merry Wives of Windsor Midsummer
Night's Dream Much Ado About Nothing Othello Pericles Richard II Richard
III Romeo and Juliet Taming of the Shrew The Tempest Timon of Athens Titus
Andronicus Troilus and Cressida Twelfth Night Two Gentlemen of Verona Two
Noble Kinsmen Winter's Tale