{"id":1025,"date":"2019-02-11T20:26:33","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T20:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespearelang\/?page_id=1025"},"modified":"2019-09-13T11:34:11","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T11:34:11","slug":"shakespeare-symposium","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/shakespearelang\/engagement\/shakespeare-symposium\/","title":{"rendered":"Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday 28th<\/sup> June 2019, we welcomed around 60 delegates to Lancaster for the Encyclopedia of Shakespeare\u2019s Language Symposium.<\/p>\n

The half-day symposium was designed to be a celebration of the upcoming public release of our resources. The event began with two opening addresses: one from the world-renowned English language scholar Prof. David Crystal, and a second from leading architect of corpus linguistics, Lancaster\u2019s very own Prof. Tony McEnery.<\/p>\n

The remainder of the symposium consisted of a series of talks from the project team. The first half of the afternoon aimed to give an overview of the resources that will be made available via the project website, whilst the second half aimed to give a flavour of some of the research possibilities that those resources might afford. This included talks ranging from grammatical style through to gender in Shakespeare. There was also a talk reporting on the results of a spin-off project on the linguistic difficulties that students experience when reading Shakespeare.<\/p>\n

The event stimulated a whole range of interesting discussions about the usefulness of corpus linguistics not only in the study of Shakespeare, but within Early Modern English and historical linguistics more generally. It also provided a forum for scholars who have a shared interest in Shakespeare\u2019s Language to come together: we were pleased to welcome delegates from as far afield as Egypt, China and Australia.<\/p>\n

We wish to thank everyone for joining us in Lancaster to hear about this exciting project, and all speakers for their stimulating talks \u2013 David Crystal, Tony McEnery, Jonathan Culpeper, Dawn Archer, Alison Findlay, Andrew Hardie, Jane Demmen, Sean Murphy, Isolde van Dorst, and Mathew Gillings.<\/p>\n

We are pleased that the whole event was recorded – just click on the name of the talk you want to watch and enjoy!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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OPENING<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Welcome<\/a><\/td>\nJonathan Culpeper<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Opening address (1): Language and Shakespeare<\/a><\/td>\nDavid Crystal<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Opening address (2): Historical language and corpus methods<\/a><\/td>\nTony McEnery<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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NEW RESOURCES FOR INVESTIGATING SHAKESPEARE’S LANGUAGE<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

New data for investigating Shakespeare’s language: The Shakespeare Corpus, The Comparative Corpus of Playwrights, The Comparative Multi-Genre EEBO Corpus<\/a><\/td>\nJonathan Culpeper, Andrew Hardie, Jane Demmen, Dawn Archer and Sean Murphy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
New tools and techniques for investigating Shakespeare’s language: CQPweb and spin-off interfaces<\/a><\/td>\nAndrew Hardie and Amelia Joulain-Jay<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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CASE STUDIES<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Contemporary understandings of English and Celtic Identities: Characters in Shakespeare’s Henry V<\/a><\/td>\nJonathan Culpeper and Alison Findlay<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
A Survey of grammatical variability in Early Modern English drama<\/a><\/td>\nAndrew Hardie and Isolde van Dorst<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Women and men in Shakespeare<\/a><\/td>\nDawn Archer, Jane Demmen, Alison Findlay and Sean Murphy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Depictions of deception, focussing on 3 Shakespearean characters<\/a><\/td>\nDawn Archer and Mathew Gillings<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
What do students find difficult when they read Shakespeare?<\/a><\/td>\nSean Murphy, Jonathan Culpeper and Mathew Gillings<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Final opportunity for questions and Symposium close<\/td>\nJonathan Culpeper and the project team<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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