John Benjamins Publishing Company eBooks, Oct 5, 2020
This chapter undertakes a keyword analysis of seven Shakespearean characters: Titus, Tamora, Aaro... more This chapter undertakes a keyword analysis of seven Shakespearean characters: Titus, Tamora, Aaron, Lear, Edmund, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. The chapter discusses how, once contextualised, these keywords provide useful insights into their feelings/thoughts towards others, events, motivations to act, etc. In terms of findings, only Aaron denotes his "villainy" directly. Tamora, in contrast, draws upon a keyword that is denotatively positive; in context, though, "sweet" reveals her womanly wiles. "Weep", for Lear, and "legitimate" and "base", for Edmund, problematize their status as (one-dimensional) villains. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth draw upon grammatical keywords, "if " and "would" in ways that signal something about their (deteriorating) emotional and social positions as much as their villainous intentions
In: Jonathan Culpeper, Francis Katamba , Paul Kerswill, Ruth Wodak and Tony McEnery (eds.) Englis... more In: Jonathan Culpeper, Francis Katamba , Paul Kerswill, Ruth Wodak and Tony McEnery (eds.) English Language: Description, Variation and Context.
Contents: Does frequency really matter?, Dawn Archer Word frequency use or misuse?, John M. Kirk ... more Contents: Does frequency really matter?, Dawn Archer Word frequency use or misuse?, John M. Kirk Word frequency, statistical stylistics and authorship attribution, David L. Hoover Word frequency in context: alternative architectures for examining related words, register variation and historical change, Mark Davies Issues for historical and regional corpora: first catch your word, Christian Kay In search of a bad reference corpus, Mike Scott Keywords and moral panics: Mary Whitehouse and media censorship, Tony McEnery 'The question is, how cruel is it?' Keywords, foxhunting and the House of Commons, Paul Baker Love - 'a familiar or a devil'? An exploration of key domains in Shakespeare's comedies and tragedies, Dawn Archer, Jonathan Culpeper and Paul Rayson Promoting the wider use of word frequency and keyword extraction techniques, Dawn Archer Appendices Bibliography Index.
John Benjamins Publishing Company eBooks, Oct 5, 2020
This chapter undertakes a keyword analysis of seven Shakespearean characters: Titus, Tamora, Aaro... more This chapter undertakes a keyword analysis of seven Shakespearean characters: Titus, Tamora, Aaron, Lear, Edmund, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth. The chapter discusses how, once contextualised, these keywords provide useful insights into their feelings/thoughts towards others, events, motivations to act, etc. In terms of findings, only Aaron denotes his "villainy" directly. Tamora, in contrast, draws upon a keyword that is denotatively positive; in context, though, "sweet" reveals her womanly wiles. "Weep", for Lear, and "legitimate" and "base", for Edmund, problematize their status as (one-dimensional) villains. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth draw upon grammatical keywords, "if " and "would" in ways that signal something about their (deteriorating) emotional and social positions as much as their villainous intentions
In: Jonathan Culpeper, Francis Katamba , Paul Kerswill, Ruth Wodak and Tony McEnery (eds.) Englis... more In: Jonathan Culpeper, Francis Katamba , Paul Kerswill, Ruth Wodak and Tony McEnery (eds.) English Language: Description, Variation and Context.
Contents: Does frequency really matter?, Dawn Archer Word frequency use or misuse?, John M. Kirk ... more Contents: Does frequency really matter?, Dawn Archer Word frequency use or misuse?, John M. Kirk Word frequency, statistical stylistics and authorship attribution, David L. Hoover Word frequency in context: alternative architectures for examining related words, register variation and historical change, Mark Davies Issues for historical and regional corpora: first catch your word, Christian Kay In search of a bad reference corpus, Mike Scott Keywords and moral panics: Mary Whitehouse and media censorship, Tony McEnery 'The question is, how cruel is it?' Keywords, foxhunting and the House of Commons, Paul Baker Love - 'a familiar or a devil'? An exploration of key domains in Shakespeare's comedies and tragedies, Dawn Archer, Jonathan Culpeper and Paul Rayson Promoting the wider use of word frequency and keyword extraction techniques, Dawn Archer Appendices Bibliography Index.
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