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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... tragedies of HAM, LR, MAC and OTH. The four plays were systematically searched for pairs of minimally contrasting discourse dyads where the dimensions of contrast were power, distance, and the intrinsic extremity of the Face Threatening ...
... tragedies of HAM, LR, MAC and OTH. The four plays were systematically searched for pairs of minimally contrasting discourse dyads where the dimensions of contrast were power, distance, and the intrinsic extremity of the Face Threatening ...
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... tragedies in comparison to comedies “is closely associated with the numerical increase of some social/psychological variables correlated with particular strategies of politeness in tragedies” (1993a: 111). In summary, he tentatively ...
... tragedies in comparison to comedies “is closely associated with the numerical increase of some social/psychological variables correlated with particular strategies of politeness in tragedies” (1993a: 111). In summary, he tentatively ...
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... tragedy, written presumably in 1605—06 (dates according to Schabert 2000: 241 f.). Hope has also carried out a quantitative analysis of all T forms in Shakespeare's plays. His findings only partly bear out the result of Brainerd ...
... tragedy, written presumably in 1605—06 (dates according to Schabert 2000: 241 f.). Hope has also carried out a quantitative analysis of all T forms in Shakespeare's plays. His findings only partly bear out the result of Brainerd ...
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... Tragedy. Since then, many attempts have been made to categorise Shakespeare's plays. In modern times a fourth genre Romance, has become Widely accepted. Other subgenres such as Roman Plays and Late/Problem Plays have been proposed and ...
... Tragedy. Since then, many attempts have been made to categorise Shakespeare's plays. In modern times a fourth genre Romance, has become Widely accepted. Other subgenres such as Roman Plays and Late/Problem Plays have been proposed and ...
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... Tragedy, Romance and Roman Plays are too similar to base any major differences of pronominal usage in relation to these genres. However, in their use of second person pronouns the Tragedies bear more similarities to the History Plays ...
... Tragedy, Romance and Roman Plays are too similar to base any major differences of pronominal usage in relation to these genres. However, in their use of second person pronouns the Tragedies bear more similarities to the History Plays ...
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