The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language
Plays and Characters
$720.19
- Hardcover
728 pages
- Release Date
5 February 2025
Summary
The Arden Encyclopedia 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.
This third volume 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 v…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781350261938 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1350261939 |
| Author: | Professor Alison Findlay, Dr Sean Murphy, Professor Dawn Archer, Dr Jonathan Culpeper, Alison Findlay, Dawn Archer |
| Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Imprint: | The Arden Shakespeare |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 728 |
| Release Date: | 5 February 2025 |
| Weight: | 1.56kg |
| Dimensions: | 250mm x 194mm x 44mm |
| Series: | Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language |
About The Author
Professor Alison Findlay
Dawn Archer is Professor of Pragmatics and Corpus Linguistics 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.
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