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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... Politeness theory applied to Shakespearean drama 22 The problem of standard use and its implications for Shakespeare studies 26 2.6 The concept of markedness 27 2.7 Shifts in pronominal address 31 2.8 Special cases of conventionalised ...
... Politeness theory applied to Shakespearean drama 22 The problem of standard use and its implications for Shakespeare studies 26 2.6 The concept of markedness 27 2.7 Shifts in pronominal address 31 2.8 Special cases of conventionalised ...
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... politeness 194 7.5 The discourse functions of pray and prithee 198 7.5.1 Discourse samples from WIV 200 7.5.2 Discourse samples from 1H4 201 7.5.3 Analysis of the discourse samples from WIV and 1H4 201 7.6 Pray and prithee in terms of ...
... politeness 194 7.5 The discourse functions of pray and prithee 198 7.5.1 Discourse samples from WIV 200 7.5.2 Discourse samples from 1H4 201 7.5.3 Analysis of the discourse samples from WIV and 1H4 201 7.6 Pray and prithee in terms of ...
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... on the basis of Brown and Levinson's (1987) politeness theory have come to the fore, which, however, regard the choice of address pronouns as irrelevant, because within the. Linguistic Variation in the Shakespeare Corpus.
... on the basis of Brown and Levinson's (1987) politeness theory have come to the fore, which, however, regard the choice of address pronouns as irrelevant, because within the. Linguistic Variation in the Shakespeare Corpus.
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... politeness of an utterance. For these reasons a study that tries to incorporate the different approaches of earlier research into a comprehensive, empirically grounded description and explanation of usage on the basis of a large corpus ...
... politeness of an utterance. For these reasons a study that tries to incorporate the different approaches of earlier research into a comprehensive, empirically grounded description and explanation of usage on the basis of a large corpus ...
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... Politeness theory applied to Shakespearean drama After this criticism of their earlier theories it is interesting to discuss the Brown and Gilman (1989) approach to Shakespearean drama in the concept of politeness theory as proposed by ...
... Politeness theory applied to Shakespearean drama After this criticism of their earlier theories it is interesting to discuss the Brown and Gilman (1989) approach to Shakespearean drama in the concept of politeness theory as proposed by ...
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