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Podcast: Arts & Ideas
Episode: New Thinking: Shakespeare's Language
Description: Encyclopedia of Shakespeare's Language uses corpus linguistics, a statistical method that collates data on how frequently words are used and how often particular words appear alongside each other, to investigate Shakespeare's work. And the results are startling. John Gallagher talks to Professor Jonathan Culpeper and Professor Alison Findlay, both from Lancaster University, about how the project works, and the light it's shedding both on how Shakespeare worked as a writer, and on the development of the English language in Shakespeare's day.
http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/shakespearelang/
Dr John Gallagher is a Lecturer in the History Department at the...