Keywords and plays (part 1)
This video-talk, though voiced by Jonathan Culpeper, incorporates the words of Sean Murphy. A keyword analysis can be used to identify a style in any body of language data. Here, …
Course: Shakespeare's Language: Revealing Meanings and Exploring Myths
Keywords and plays (part 2)
This video-talk, though voiced by Jonathan Culpeper, incorporates the words of Sean Murphy. Armed with our knowledge of keywords and how to group them in particular ways, we now examine …
CQPweb: Calculating keywords
We strongly advise you to listen to Andrew Hardie’s talk in one window of your computer, and open up his program, CQPweb, in another, so that you can practice what …
Counting language
Some of the key myths about Shakespeare’s language revolve around big numbers. That is the key reason we begin this week by thinking about the counting of linguistic items, especially …
Course structure
Each of the weeks ahead has a different focus and indeed often a different mix of materials. Taken as a whole, the course covers a wide range of interests from …
CQPweb: Finding non-English words
Given that you have just heard the video-talk on Latin words in Shakespeare, now seems the moment to tell you how to retrieve “foreign” words in Shakespeare using CQPweb. We …
Getting Started with CQPweb
This article’s purpose is to walk you through the purpose of signing up for the online system CQPweb at Lancaster University, where the Enhanced Shakespearean Corpus is available for analysis. …
Round-up
We have covered a lot this week! Here are some of the things we have covered: Modern play editions compared to early modern plays (folio and quarto editions); The First …
Big data: Enhanced Shakespearean EEBO-TCP
The problem with using the whole of EEBO for Shakespeare-related studies is that it is too broad. For example, for most purposes, we don’t need language from the late fifteenth …
CQPweb: Collocations
This talk focuses on collocations, a concept you have met already, and in particular how to generate them and interpret them. As always, there will be copious illustration and hints …
CQPweb: Creating subcorpora
We strongly advise you to listen to Andrew Hardie’s talk in one window of your computer, and open up his program, CQPweb, in another, so that you can practice what …
Keywords and characters: Romeo and Juliet
This video-talk, though voiced by Jonathan Culpeper, incorporates the words of Sean Murphy. This video-talk examines how a keyword analysis can reveal how language characterises Romeo and Juliet. It captures …
Shakespeare IS the English Language myth (part 2)
Again, we examined the myth that Shakespeare’s language is the English language, but this time we are looking at particular expressions. More specifically, four expressions are examined: “Sea change” from …
Keywords and characters: Desdemona in Othello
This video-talk, though voiced by Jonathan Culpeper, incorporates the words of Sean Murphy. As you already know, a statistically-derived keyword is more than the most frequent words. Here, we focus …
CQPweb: Introducing frequency breakdown
This talk is a continuation of the previous one. Andrew Hardie hones your skills in Word searching. He will return to spelling variation, but this time introduce “frequency breakdown”, a …
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Shakespeare's Language: Revealing Meanings and Exploring Myths