9781350017955-1350017957-The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language

The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language

ISBN-13: 9781350017955
ISBN-10: 1350017957
Author: Andrew Hardie, Jonathan Culpeper, Jane Demmen
Publication date: 2023
Publisher: The Arden Shakespeare
Format: Hardcover 841 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781350017955
ISBN-10: 1350017957
Author: Andrew Hardie, Jonathan Culpeper, Jane Demmen
Publication date: 2023
Publisher: The Arden Shakespeare
Format: Hardcover 841 pages

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The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language (ISBN-13: 9781350017955 and ISBN-10: 1350017957), written by authors Andrew Hardie, Jonathan Culpeper, Jane Demmen, was published by The Arden Shakespeare in 2023. With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent The Arden Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $2.32.

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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.

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