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Jonathan Culpeper

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Professor and Head of Department of Linguistics & English Language @LAEL_LU at Lancaster University. PI on @ShakespeareLang.
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The Shakespeare I have come to know: A scholar separates legend from legacy

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By Jonathan Culpeper
| Hindustan Times Verified
So, how many words did he actually invent? Wild speculations are easy to find. Even the web pages of the esteemed Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (the independent educational charity formed to preserve his birthplace as a national memorial) states that the figure is 1,700. It is not clear how that number was arrived at. Working with colleagues, I have been discovering that the truer number is closer to 400. Another popular idea is that Shakespeare’s language is “universal”.
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The Shakespeare I have come to know: A scholar separates legend from legacy

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By Jonathan Culpeper
| HT Syndication
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How linguists are unlocking the meanings of Shakespeare's words using numbers

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By Jonathan Culpeper
| Phys.org Verified
Today it would seem odd to describe a flower with the word "bastard"—why apply a term of personal abuse to a flower? But in Shakespeare's time, "bastard" was a technical term describing certain plants. Similarly, associating the word "bad" with success and talking of a "bad success" would be decidedly odd today. But it was not unusual then, when success meant outcome, which could be good or bad.
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