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Zusatztext The eleven articles included jointly offer an impressive scope of scholarship, catering to various literary and linguistic tastes, while bringing the multi-level nature of Shakespeare's style clearly into focus... The volume is an important contribution to scholarship, on several levels... The various linguistic aspects of Shakespeare's texts work cohesively together to create meaning. They are all needed in order for the overall idea to emerge. To appreciate the 'holistic' message, one needs to look at all the parts. This volume shows how it can be achieved. Informationen zum Autor Mireille Ravassat is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Language at Valenciennes University, France Jonathan Culpeper is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Lancaster University, UK Klappentext Moving across Shakespeare studies! language studies and linguistics! this book develops a coherent analysis of the stylistics of Shakespeare's language. Vorwort Moving across Shakespeare studies, language studies and linguistics, this book develops a coherent analysis of the stylistics of Shakespeare's language. Zusammenfassung This innovative volume testifies to the current revived interest in Shakespeare's language and style and opens up new and captivating vistas of investigation. Transcending old boundaries between literary and linguistic studies, this engaging collaborative book comes up with an original array of theoretical approaches and new findings. The chapters in the collection capture a rich diversity of points of view and cover such fields as lexicography, versification, dramaturgy, rhetorical analyses, cognitive and computational corpus-based stylistic studies, offering a holistic vision of Shakespeare's uses of language. The perspective is deliberately broad, confronting ideas and visions at the intersection of various techniques of textual investigation. Such novel explorations of Shakespeare's multifarious artistry and amazing inventiveness in his use of language will cater for a broad range of readers, from undergraduates, postgraduates, scholars and researchers, to poetry and theatre lovers alike. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of contributors \ Introduction, Mireille Ravassat & Jonathan Culpeper \ 1. ‘Strange deliveries': contextualising Shakespeare's first citations in the OED Giles Goodland \ 2. Shakespeare's vocabulary: did it dwarf all others? Ward E. Y. Elliott & Robert J. Valenza \ 3. A new kind of dictionary for Shakespeare's plays: an immodest proposal Jonathan Culpeper \ 4. ‘If I break time': Shakespearean line endings on the page and the stage Peter Kanelos \ 5. Subject-verb inversion and iambic rhythm in Shakespeare's dramatic verse Richard Ingham and Michael Ingham \ 6. Shakespeare's ‘short' pentameters and the rhythms of dramatic verse Peter Groves \ 7. Wholes and holes in the study of Shakespeare's wordplay Dirk Delabastita \ 8 ‘a thing inseparate / Divides more wider than the sky and earth' - of oxymoron in Shakespeare's Sonnets Mireille Ravassat \ 9. 'Rue with a difference': a computational stylistic analysis of the rhetoric of suicide in Hamlet Thomas Anderson and Scott Crossley \ 10. Shakespeare's sexual language and metaphor: a cognitive-stylistic approach José L. Oncins Martínez \ 11.Cognitive Interplay: how Blending Theory and cognitive sc...
