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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).

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Using the Dictionary
Entries N-Z

Product details

The Arden Shakespeare
Published 18 May 2023
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 384
ISBN 9781350016866
Imprint The Arden Shakespeare
Series Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Jonathan Culpeper

Jonathan Culpeper is Professor of English Language…

Author

Andrew Hardie

Andrew Hardie is Reader in Linguistics at Lancaste…

Author

Jane Demmen

Jane Demmen is a linguist interested in historical…

Series Editor

Jonathan Culpeper

Jonathan Culpeper is Professor of English Language…

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