The Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare's Language Project and Corpus Methods
Jonathan Culpeper
LAEL, Lancaster University
This presentation revolves around work taking place as part of the Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare's Language Project (http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/shakespearelang/). I will not be presenting one study in all its detail, but several studies - pilot studies, spin-off studies and in-progress studies. These will include discussion of neologisms, lexical words and grammatical words, multi-word units and the language of emotion. As I go along, I will reflect methodological challenges and solutions (or partial solutions!). I will also give glimpses of a range of results.