Linguistic Variation in the Shakespeare Corpus: Morpho-syntactic variability of second person pronounsThis study investigates the morpho-syntactic variability of the second person pronouns in the Shakespeare Corpus, seeking to elucidate the factors that underlie their choice. The major part of the work is devoted to analyzing the variation between you and thou, but it also includes chapters that deal with the variation between thy and thine and between ye and you. Methodologically, the study makes use of descriptive statistics, but incorporates both quantitative and qualitative features, drawing in particular on research methods recently developed within the fields of corpus linguistics, socio-historical linguistics and historical pragmatics. By making comparisons to other corpora on Early Modern English the work does not only contribute to Shakespeare studies, but on a broader scale also to language change by providing new and more detailed insights into the mechanisms that have led to a restructuring of the pronoun paradigm in the Early Modern period. |
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... Elizabethan sonneteers 93 5.3.4 Elizabethan poems other than sonnets 96 5.4 Conclusion 97 CHAPTER 6 “You beastly knave, know you no reverence?”: The co-occurrence of second person pronouns and nominal forms of address 99 6.1 ...
... Elizabethan sonneteers 93 5.3.4 Elizabethan poems other than sonnets 96 5.4 Conclusion 97 CHAPTER 6 “You beastly knave, know you no reverence?”: The co-occurrence of second person pronouns and nominal forms of address 99 6.1 ...
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... Elizabethan obsession” with titles. Miihlhausler and Harré also subscribe to this point of View in that they interpret you as an urban status marker which was “simply bound to become more and more widely used” (1990: 153).3 However ...
... Elizabethan obsession” with titles. Miihlhausler and Harré also subscribe to this point of View in that they interpret you as an urban status marker which was “simply bound to become more and more widely used” (1990: 153).3 However ...
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... Elizabethan society around him. Magnusson has also applied the Brown and Levinson model to Shakespearean drama. She has analysed directives in H8, but was unaware of Brown and Gilman's paper while writing her article. Nonetheless, she ...
... Elizabethan society around him. Magnusson has also applied the Brown and Levinson model to Shakespearean drama. She has analysed directives in H8, but was unaware of Brown and Gilman's paper while writing her article. Nonetheless, she ...
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... Elizabethan usage” (179). In so doing they themselves take a confident intuition as a working hypothesis. Walker (forthc.) is also of the opinion that drama texts do not provide an accurate picture of EModE language use, because often ...
... Elizabethan usage” (179). In so doing they themselves take a confident intuition as a working hypothesis. Walker (forthc.) is also of the opinion that drama texts do not provide an accurate picture of EModE language use, because often ...
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... Elizabethan drama, Mulholland also takes up the term markedness. On a contextual or attitudinal basis the marked term in this dyad is taken as an affective index. Thus, in order to meet the requirements of linguistic decorum (in ...
... Elizabethan drama, Mulholland also takes up the term markedness. On a contextual or attitudinal basis the marked term in this dyad is taken as an affective index. Thus, in order to meet the requirements of linguistic decorum (in ...
Contents
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Chapter 4 The distribution of thou and you and their variants in verse and prose | 63 |
Chapter 5 A womans face with Natures own hand painted Hast thou the master mistress of my passion | 83 |
Chapter 6 You beastly knave know you no reverence? | 99 |
Chapter 7 Prithee no more vs Pray you chuck come hither | 187 |
Chapter 8 The role of grammar in the selection of thou or you | 213 |
Chapter 10 Stand sir and throw us that you have about ye | 249 |
Chapter 11 Summary and conclusion | 283 |
Notes | 297 |
References | 311 |
Name index | 333 |
Subject index | 337 |
The PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES | 340 |
Chapter 9 In thine own person answer thy abuse | 223 |
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16th century 17th century address pronouns adjectives analysis blank verse Brown and Gilman Chapter Claudio co-occurring confirmed context cousin diachronic discourse discourse markers discourse particle distribution drama Elizabethan EModE English examples factors Falstaff figures final find findings first five forms of address free variation frequent function genre grammatical husband imperatives influence instances King knave lady language Leonato lexical liege linguistic lord markedness markers mistress Nevalainen nominative occur ofthe Othello plural politeness pragmatic pray thee prithee pronominal pronoun combined Comedies pronoun switching pronoun usage pronoun Y pronoun pronouns co—occurring rogue Schmidt and Sarrazin second person pronouns Shakespeare Corpus Shakespeare’s plays significant singular sirrah sociolinguistic Sonnet 13 sonnets speaker Spevack syntactic Table term of endearment text types thine thou Total Tragedies variation verbs verse and prose vocatives vowel ye tokens