Linguistic variation in the Shakespeare corpus : morpho-syntactic variability of second person pronouns / Ulrich Busse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Busse, Ulrich.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 106.

Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; v. 106

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Early modern, 1500-1700--Pronoun.

English language.

English language--Early modern, 1500-1700--Variation.

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Language.

Shakespeare, William.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (358 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This study investigates the morpho-syntactic variability of the second person pronouns in the Shakespeare Corpus, seeking to elucidate the factors that underlie their choice. The major part of the work is devoted to analyzing the variation between you and thou, but it also includes chapters that deal with the variation between thy and thine and between ye and you. Methodologically, the study makes use of descriptive statistics, but incorporates both quantitative and qualitative features, drawing in particular on research methods recently developed within the fields of corpus linguistics, socio-historical linguistics and historical pragmatics. By making comparisons to other corpora on Early Modern English the work does not only contribute to Shakespeare studies, but on a broader scale also to language change by providing new and more detailed insights into the mechanisms that have led to a restructuring of the pronoun paradigm in the Early Modern period.

Contents:

Linguistic Variation in the Shakespeare Corpus

Editorial page

Title page

LCC page

Dedication page

Table of contents

Preface and acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Chapter 1 General introduction

Chapter 2 Previous research on the use of personal pronouns in EarlyModern English...

Chapter 3 Thou and you

Appendix

Chapter 4 The distribution of thou and you and their variants in verse and prose

Chapter 5 "A woman's face with Nature's own hand painted / Hast thou, the master mistress of my passion"

Chapter 6 "You beastly knave, know you no reverence?"

Chapter 7 "Prithee no more" vs. "Pray you, chuck, come hither"

Chapter 8 The role of grammar in the selection of thou or you

Chapter 9 "In thine own person answer thy abuse"

Chapter 10 "Stand, sir, and throw us that you have about ye"

Chapter 11 Summary and conclusion

Notes

References

Name index

Subject index

The PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [311]-331) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612160967

9781282160965

1282160966

9789027296191

9027296197

OCLC:

56118090