The Arden encyclopedia of Shakespeare's language /
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, focu...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Arden Shakespeare,
[2023].
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| Series: | Arden encyclopedia of Shakespeare's language.
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| Summary: | 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, 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. 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 flavor of words, for example whether a word is literary or colloquial. |
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| Physical Description: | 2 volumes (xxiii, 841 pages) : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781350017955 1350017957 9781350016620 1350016624 9781350016859 1350016853 |