• ISBN13: 9781441171726
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Continuum
• Publisher Imprint: Continuum
• Publication Date: June 15, 2011
• Pages: 288
• Original Price: GBP 34.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 431 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Linguistics / Semantics

About the Book 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.

Culpeper, Jonathan: - Jonathan Culpeper is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Lancaster University, UK.

McIntyre, Dan: - Daniel McIntyre is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Ravassat, Mireille: - Mireille Ravassat is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Language at Valenciennes University, France

Walker, Brian: - Brian Walker is a Visiting Researcher at Queen's University Belfast, UK. His research interests are in stylistics, discourse analysis, and corpus linguistics, especially applied to literary and political discourses. He has co-authored books on discourse analysis (Canning and Walker 2024), stylistics (Lugea and Walker 2023), corpus stylistics (McIntyre and Walker 2019) and socio-political keywords (Jeffries and Walker 2017). His other published research focuses on using corpus linguistic approaches to analyse poetry (McIntyre and Walker 2022), discourses of austerity (Jeffries and Walker 2019, 2020), and Early Modern English news pamphlets (Walker and McIntyre 2015).