Introduction

Craig, Hugh; Kinney, Arthur F.

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511605437.002

Cited by 6 publications

(5 citation statements)

References 5 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…ARTICLE PALGRAVE COMMUNICATIONS | DOI: 10.1057DOI: 10. /palcomms.2017 Conclusions As pointed out by Craig and Kinney (2009), quantitative data can indicate what qualitative questions should (and should not) be pursued. This study indicates that the use of adverbial clauses in relation to gender in Shakespeare's plays is quite different than that attested in the actual usage of twentieth-century British English speakers.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 96%

Adverbial clauses and speaker and interlocutor gender in Shakespeare’s plays

McGarry

Kiser

2017

Palgrave Commun

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This study draws on previous findings regarding adverbial clauses in relation to speaker and interlocutor gender in a corpus of current actual speaker data. Our aim is to examine those same relations in a corpus of Shakespeare's comedies and histories. Mondorf (2004) investigated four types of adverbial clauses in a corpus of modern speech and found that the women used more causal, conditional and purpose clauses than the men, while the men used more concessive clauses. Mondorf's explanation for this difference is that women use the three clause types that mitigate the speaker's commitment to the truth of the proposition, while men tend to use more concessives, which strengthen the commitment. She also found that in mixed-gender conversations these trends were generally intensified. However, other analyses have indicated that these patterns do not hold across contexts. Much more research is called for to understand the localized relations among adverbial clause usage, speaker gender and context in particular settings. One question to pursue is whether we can see gendered patterns of adverbial usage in historical varieties of English. Accordingly, in this study we analyse dialogue in Shakespeare's plays to ascertain whether Mondorf's findings can be extrapolated to the language of these fictional speakers. The results indicate that Shakespeare generally does not use the adverbial clauses to portray the gender of the characters in ways similar to those of actual, modern speakers. Only small differences are found, regarding purpose clauses in the histories and conditional clauses in the comedies. The analysis indicates that female and male characters speak very similarly with regard to syntax, and adverbial clauses contribute to the construction of characters in very localized contexts.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 96%

Adverbial clauses and speaker and interlocutor gender in Shakespeare’s plays

McGarry

Kiser

2017

Palgrave Commun

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Users can request an analysis of words which are likely to mark out an article’s belonging to one dataset as opposed to another. The algorithm implemented here is the Zeta algorithm, as described originally by Burrows [ 13 ] and extended by Craig and Kinney [ 14 ]. This algorithm is aimed at the determination of difference .…”

Section: Text Analysis Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

RLetters: A Web-Based Application for Text Analysis of Journal Articles

Pence

2016

PLoS ONE

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

While textual analysis of the journal literature is a burgeoning field, there is still a profound lack of user-friendly software for accomplishing this task. RLetters is a free, open-source web application which provides researchers with an environment in which they can select sets of journal articles and analyze them with cutting-edge textual analysis tools. RLetters allows users without prior expertise in textual analysis to analyze word frequency, collocations, cooccurrences, term networks, and more. It is implemented in Ruby and scripts are provided to automate deployment.

show abstract

“…Craig and Kinney suggest that ‘[w]riters tend to remain within a defined band of style, but this is a propensity, not an iron law’ (Craig and Kinney, 2009: 24). This assertion leaves unspecified the factors that might make an author inclined, or not, to stick within the trammels of their stylistic preferences.…”

Section: Interjections and Timementioning

confidence: 99%

Interjections and individual style: A study of restoration dramatic language

Evans

2023

Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper examines the manifestation of individual style through the lens of a specific language category: the interjection. The analysis considers how interjections are used as a resource in the dramatic dialogue of three Restoration playwrights: Aphra Behn, John Dryden and Thomas D’Urfey, and how their preferences and practices of use compare to previously identified trends in the history of English. Using the concept of the repertoire as a frame for situated language use, the paper examines how genre, time, and characterisation shape the selection and frequency of interjections in the plays of each author. Corpus linguistic methods are used to provide a quantitative and qualitative overview of each author’s interjection repertoire. The results suggest that whilst genre, time, and characterisation are influential in shaping the selection and implementation of interjection forms, the choice of expressive language in dramatic contexts is also distinctive and coherent at an authorial level.

show abstract

Introduction

Cited by 6 publications

References 5 publications

Adverbial clauses and speaker and interlocutor gender in Shakespeare’s plays

Adverbial clauses and speaker and interlocutor gender in Shakespeare’s plays

RLetters: A Web-Based Application for Text Analysis of Journal Articles

Interjections and individual style: A study of restoration dramatic language

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About