Skip main navigation

New offer! Get 30% off one whole year of Unlimited learning. Subscribe for just £249.99 £174.99. T&Cs apply

Keywords and plays (part 2)

This video-talk, though voiced by Jonathan Culpeper, incorporates the words of Sean Murphy. Armed with our knowledge of keywords and how to group them in particular ways, we now examine …

Keywords and plays (part 1)

This video-talk, though voiced by Jonathan Culpeper, incorporates the words of Sean Murphy. A keyword analysis can be used to identify a style in any body of language data. Here, …

CQPweb: Calculating keywords

We strongly advise you to listen to Andrew Hardie’s talk in one window of your computer, and open up his program, CQPweb, in another, so that you can practice what …

Counting language

Some of the key myths about Shakespeare’s language revolve around big numbers. That is the key reason we begin this week by thinking about the counting of linguistic items, especially …

CQPweb: Finding non-English words

Given that you have just heard the video-talk on Latin words in Shakespeare, now seems the moment to tell you how to retrieve “foreign” words in Shakespeare using CQPweb. We …

Course structure

Each of the weeks ahead has a different focus and indeed often a different mix of materials. Taken as a whole, the course covers a wide range of interests from …

Getting Started with CQPweb 

This article’s purpose is to walk you through the purpose of signing up for the online system CQPweb at Lancaster University, where the Enhanced Shakespearean Corpus is available for analysis. …

Round-up

We have covered a lot this week! Here are some of the things we have covered: Modern play editions compared to early modern plays (folio and quarto editions); The First …

Big data: Enhanced Shakespearean EEBO-TCP

The problem with using the whole of EEBO for Shakespeare-related studies is that it is too broad. For example, for most purposes, we don’t need language from the late fifteenth …

CQPweb: Collocations

This talk focuses on collocations, a concept you have met already, and in particular how to generate them and interpret them. As always, there will be copious illustration and hints …

CQPweb: Creating subcorpora

We strongly advise you to listen to Andrew Hardie’s talk in one window of your computer, and open up his program, CQPweb, in another, so that you can practice what …

Keywords and characters: Romeo and Juliet

This video-talk, though voiced by Jonathan Culpeper, incorporates the words of Sean Murphy. This video-talk examines how a keyword analysis can reveal how language characterises Romeo and Juliet. It captures …

Keywords and characters: Desdemona in Othello

This video-talk, though voiced by Jonathan Culpeper, incorporates the words of Sean Murphy. As you already know, a statistically-derived keyword is more than the most frequent words. Here, we focus …

Shakespeare IS the English Language myth (part 2)

Again, we examined the myth that Shakespeare’s language is the English language, but this time we are looking at particular expressions. More specifically, four expressions are examined: “Sea change” from …

CQPweb: Introducing frequency breakdown

This talk is a continuation of the previous one. Andrew Hardie hones your skills in Word searching. He will return to spelling variation, but this time introduce “frequency breakdown”, a …