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The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language Dr Jonathan Culpeper (Lancaster University, Lancaster)

The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language By Dr Jonathan Culpeper (Lancaster University, Lancaster)

The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language by Dr Jonathan Culpeper (Lancaster University, Lancaster)


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The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language Summary

The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language by Dr Jonathan Culpeper (Lancaster University, Lancaster)

The Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language is a two-volume encyclopedia offering the first comprehensive account of Shakespeare's language to use computational methods derived from corpus linguistics - methods of choice for today's lexicographer. Volume 1 is a dictionary from A-M, focussing on the use and meanings of Shakespeare's words, both in the context of what he wrote and in the context in which he wrote. Every word is compared with a 321 million word corpus comprising the work of Shakespeare's contemporaries. The volume establishes in detail both what is unique about Shakespeare's language and what Shakespeare's language meant to his contemporaries, including, for example, their attitudes towards love or death, what it meant to be Welsh or a harlot, or even the significance of eating fish as opposed to beef. Volume 2 is a dictionary from N-Z. As with the first volume, internal comparisons reveal how Shakespeare's language varies dynamically across his works. These show, for example, whether certain words are peculiar to tragedies, comedies or histories, and/or to certain social groups, such as people of high or low social rank, men or women, and they show the stylistic flavour of words, for example whether a word is literary or colloquial.

The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language Reviews

The fascinating two-volume, 900-page compendium shines a light on all the weird and wonderful words of the English language that have long since fallen out of use... The mammoth dictionary could make reading Shakespeare a more illuminating experience, especially for schoolchildren. * The Daily Mail *

About Dr Jonathan Culpeper (Lancaster University, Lancaster)

Jonathan Culpeper is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Lancaster University, UK. He leads the Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language project. Andrew Hardie is Reader in Linguistics at Lancaster University, UK. He is the technical lead of the Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language project. Jane Demmen is a linguist interested in historical English drama. She was a Senior Research Associate on the Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language.

Table of Contents

Volume 1 Preliminaries General Introduction to The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language Introduction to Volumes 1 and 2 A Guide to the Entries Abbreviations Entries A-M Volume 2 Preliminaries Introduction to Volumes 1 and 2 A Guide to the Entries Abbreviations Entries N-Z

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9781350017955
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The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language by Dr Jonathan Culpeper (Lancaster University, Lancaster)
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Hardback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2023-08-24
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