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The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language: Dictionary N-Z brings scholarship on Shakespeare's language fully into the 21st-century. It is one of five volumes offering the first comprehensive account of Shakespeare's language to use computational methods derived from corpus linguistics – methods of choice for today's lexicographer. This second volume is a dictionary (from N to Z), focusing 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. Internal comparisons reveal how Shakespeare's language varies dynamically across his works, for example, whether certain words are peculiar to tragedies, comedies or histories, and/or to certain social groups (e.g. people of high/low social rank; men/women). External comparisons, with for example a 380-million word corpus of wider English genres from around the same time (1560-1639), show the stylistic flavour of words (e.g. whether a word is literary or colloquial).
| Published | 18 May 2023 |
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| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 384 |
| ISBN | 9781350016866 |
| Imprint | The Arden Shakespeare |
| Series | Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
