慕课｜兰卡斯特大学7月新课：使用语料库方法分析莎士比亚的语言

新慕课课程：

语料库语言学和莎士比亚的语言

Starting from: 12th July 

Duration: four weeks (it amounts to about three hours per week). 

Use the link below to register: 

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/shakespeares-language/

The course is designed for everyone - general public but also students and researchers. On this course, you will explore Shakespeare's language and, more generally, the language of his time. 

You will also learn how to use corpus linguistic methods, and will explore how words and meanings pattern across plays, characters, and more.

What topics will you cover?

• The general features of the English of Shakespeare’s time, from spellings through words to grammar;

• The nature of Shakespearean texts, including how their production affected their language;

• How huge collections of texts can be explored by computer to highlight meanings (and in a more subtle and yet empirical way than current Shakespearean dictionaries);

• The myths about Shakespeare’s language (e.g. that he coined an extraordinary number of new words); and

• How fresh light can be shed on the linguistic styles of plays and characters through corpus methods.