Lancaster University - Shakespeare's Language: Revealing Meanings and Exploring Myths
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Shakespeare's Language: Revealing Meanings and Exploring Myths at FutureLearn Overview
Duration | 4 weeks |
Total fee | ₹2,763 |
Mode of learning | Online |
Credential | Certificate |
Shakespeare's Language: Revealing Meanings and Exploring Myths at FutureLearn Highlights
- Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate.
- Evaluate common myths surrounding Shakespeare?s language,
Shakespeare's Language: Revealing Meanings and Exploring Myths at FutureLearn Course details
- On this course, you will explore Shakespeares 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 Shakespeares life and languages like that he coined an extraordinary number of new words are actually myths.
Shakespeare's Language: Revealing Meanings and Exploring Myths at FutureLearn Curriculum
A strange tongue
Introductions
Shakespeare's language and its linguistic context
Shakespeare's linguistic backdrop: Words
Shakespeare's linguistic backdrop: Nouns and pronouns
Shakespeare's linguistic backdrop: Verbs (and adjectives and adverbs)
Shakespeare's linguistic backdrop: Sentences
Round-up
New-found methods
Week 1 recap
Accessing Shakespeare
From Early modern printing to digital texts
Big data: Mining the language surrounding Shakespeare
Shakespearean dictionaries
Using CQPweb
Exploring meanings in Shakespeare
Round-up
Mistake the truth
Week 2 Recap
Counting language
The big myth: Shakespeare's Neologisms
More on using CQPweb
Other myths about Shakespeare's language
Round-up
This bigger key
Week 3 Recap
Keywords and characters
Yet more on using CQPweb
Keywords and plays
Wrapping-up
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