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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... use of personal pronouns in Early Modern English with special reference to Shakespeare's plays 15 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 ... pronoun use 34 2.9 Summary and conclusion 36 CHAPTER 3 Thou and you: A quantitative analysis 37 3.1 Working ...
... use of personal pronouns in Early Modern English with special reference to Shakespeare's plays 15 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 ... pronoun use 34 2.9 Summary and conclusion 36 CHAPTER 3 Thou and you: A quantitative analysis 37 3.1 Working ...
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... pronoun use in individual plays. Many ofthe older works are based on the Brown and Gilman (1960) model of power and solidarity, which tries to elucidate the selection of the pronouns in a sociological approach. On the other hand ...
... pronoun use in individual plays. Many ofthe older works are based on the Brown and Gilman (1960) model of power and solidarity, which tries to elucidate the selection of the pronouns in a sociological approach. On the other hand ...
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Morpho-syntactic variability of second person pronouns Ulrich Busse. the choice of address pronouns as irrelevant, because within the framework of their theory pronoun usage is viewed as being socially predictable and thus does not add ...
Morpho-syntactic variability of second person pronouns Ulrich Busse. the choice of address pronouns as irrelevant, because within the framework of their theory pronoun usage is viewed as being socially predictable and thus does not add ...
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... pronoun usage in drama resembled that of contemporary society or was rather conventionalised.20 In the past there have been objections to corpus studies, especially from theoretically minded scholars working within the field of ...
... pronoun usage in drama resembled that of contemporary society or was rather conventionalised.20 In the past there have been objections to corpus studies, especially from theoretically minded scholars working within the field of ...
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... use of personal pronouns in individual plays or deal with specific issues connected to pronoun use. These works will be discussed in the following chapters in the light of specific research questions. 2.2 Classics in the field In the ...
... use of personal pronouns in individual plays or deal with specific issues connected to pronoun use. These works will be discussed in the following chapters in the light of specific research questions. 2.2 Classics in the field In the ...
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