Shakespeare's Language: Revealing Meanings and Exploring Myths
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Course overview
- Provider
- Futurelearn
- Course type
- Free trial availiable
- Deadline
- Flexible
- Duration
- 4 hours
- Course author
- Jonathan Culpeper
Description
Demystify renowned Shakespeare myths and get introduced to corpus-based methods for analysing his use of language in context.
Debunk and discover common myths surrounding the language of William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare is a global phenomenon, yet there is actually relatively little work specifically devoted to his language, and even less deploying the latest techniques from linguistics.
On this course, you will explore Shakespeare’s language and, more generally, the language of his time.
Over four weeks, you will be introduced to “big data” corpus methods (methods that use computers to explore large volumes of language data) which you can use for your own investigations, and will explore how words and meanings pattern across plays, characters, and more.
Along the way, you will find out why various beliefs about Shakespeare’s life and language–like that he coined an extraordinary number of new words–are actually myths.
This course will be actively facilitated between the 12th July and 8th August.Similar courses
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Flexible deadline
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