Author Archives: Mathew Gillings
Shakespeare’s Neologisms: From Myth to Evidence
Following on from the AHRC-funded Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language project, we are pleased to announce that we have been successfully awarded a grant (£9,740.15) from the British Academy. The project will establish whether, and to what extent, widely held views … Continue reading
Scuffles, Swagger, and Shakespeare: The Hidden Story of English
Our very own Jonathan Culpeper recently featured in the BBC Four documentary “Scuffles, Swagger, and Shakespeare: The Hidden Story of English” presented by Dr. John Gallagher. Jonathan discusses some recent work coming out of the Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language project, … Continue reading
Intern – Eleanor Field
Hi, I’m Eleanor, and I’ve just finished my second year of studying English Language and Linguistics at Lancaster. During my summer break I completed an internship working on the Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare’s Language, supervised by Professor Jonathan Culpeper. I decided … Continue reading
BBC Radio 3 Podcast
Jonathan Culpeper and Alison Findlay feature in a new 45-minute BBC Radio 3 Podcast called “New thinking: Shakespeare’s Language”, presented by John Gallagher. They discuss how the project works, and the light it’s shedding both on how Shakespeare worked as … Continue reading
Intern – Sam Hollands
Being involved with the Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language project has been a great opportunity. I have been working as an intern for the last 4 weeks developing scripts to improve the efficiency of certain workflows, mainly designing a system to … Continue reading
Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language Symposium
Encyclopedia of Shakespeare’s Language Symposium
A close encounter with Richard III
By Dr Jane Demmen, Senior Research Associate Last month project Co-Investigator Andrew Hardie and I presented a paper at the Computational Methods for Literary-Historical Textual Scholarship conference at De Montfort University in Leicester (UK): a great event bringing together scholars … Continue reading
New intern
We are very pleased to welcome Poppy Plumb to the Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare’s Language team for the next few weeks. Find out a little more about Poppy and what she’ll be working on below… I’ve just finished my second year … Continue reading
Is that a verb I see before me? Implementing grammatical category/part-of-speech tagging in the Shakespeare Corpus
Jane Demmen discusses the process of part-of-speech tagging the Shakespeare corpus, explores some of the issues the team encountered, and their subsequent solutions… One of the many software programs that enables us to carry out the task of creating an … Continue reading
Shakespeare’s use of pronominal address terms
Isolde van Dorst, recent graduate from the University of Groningen and the University of Malta, discusses her study on pronominal address terms in Shakespeare’s texts in collaboration with the Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare’s Language project. As part of my masters degree … Continue reading