Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare's Language
Lead Research Organisation:
Lancaster University
Department Name: Linguistics and English Language
Abstract
Shakespearean scholarship is of global interest, and has accrued considerable economic benefit to the UK. 2014 and 2016 mark the anniversaries of Shakespeare's birth and death. Yet, while we celebrate Shakespeare's language, its study suffers neglect, relative to literary and cultural studies. Moreover, no study of Shakespeare has deployed the latest methods used by today's linguists to interrogate large electronic collections of texts (corpora) in a comprehensive way. The Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare's Language project will fill this gap, bringing scholarship on Shakespeare's language fully into the 21st century.
The premier reference for historical English language, the Oxford English Dictionary, is limited with respect to Shakespeare's language. Firstly, since its entries for the relevant period are often based on Shakespeare's works, they provide no independent perspective. Second, it prioritises etymology, rather than thoroughly examining how Shakespeare actually used language, with reference to its contexts and effects. Onions' (1911) glossary of Shakespeare follows this tradition. Moreover, all Shakespearean dictionaries, including Crystal and Crystal (2004), define words in terms of synonyms. The word horrid, for example, is glossed with words such as 'horrifying' and 'terrifying'. However, Shakespeare is more specific: he typically uses horrid to refer to fear caused by supernatural or unnatural acts, sights and sounds. The Encyclopaedia will use frequency information and linguistic context to reveal subtle patterns of meaning and usage, which have eluded Shakespearean scholarship.
A unique feature of the encyclopaedia is that comparisons are at its heart. Internal comparisons will reveal how Shakespeare's language varies. For instance, we will show how certain words, meanings, and structures are peculiar to tragedies, comedies or histories; to social groups; and to specific periods. For example, the exclamation ah, signalling emotional distress or pity, is characteristic of the histories, and occurs more than twice as densely in the speech of female characters compared with male. Moreover, state-of-the-art techniques will be used to compare Shakespeare's use of language with a 321-million-word corpus consisting of Early Modern texts across all extant genres, 1580 to 1640. These external comparisons will enable discovery not only of specific uses characteristic of Shakespeare, but also of the 'flavour' of particular items (e.g. whether certain words were considered colloquial, religious, courteous, etc.). For example, Ah is used relatively frequently by Shakespeare, compared with his contemporaries, and, despite being characteristic of the histories, is strongly colloquial in flavour, occurring densely in speech-related genres (e.g. trial proceedings).
The major output from the project will be a two-volume encyclopaedia, designed to be accessible to a wide range of users. The first volume will focus on words, including multi-word expressions. For example, Shakespeare had a penchant for using multi-word expressions beginning with the pronoun I (e.g. 'I pray you') - something which gives insight into an important mechanism of his dialogue. The second volume will focus on patterns of words and how they constitute idiolects for characters, sociolects for groups of characters and themes for plays and groups of plays (tragedies/comedies/histories). For example, Juliet's idiolect features words such as if and yet - words that reflect her anxieties.
The encyclopaedia will be launched in three versions: paper, web-based and as an app. Moreover, the project will make available both its comprehensively annotated Shakespeare texts and its work on the comparative data, and provide various training opportunities and resources (e.g. youtube videos, a miniMOOC) on how to use them. Users will be able to pursue their own specific research interests.
The premier reference for historical English language, the Oxford English Dictionary, is limited with respect to Shakespeare's language. Firstly, since its entries for the relevant period are often based on Shakespeare's works, they provide no independent perspective. Second, it prioritises etymology, rather than thoroughly examining how Shakespeare actually used language, with reference to its contexts and effects. Onions' (1911) glossary of Shakespeare follows this tradition. Moreover, all Shakespearean dictionaries, including Crystal and Crystal (2004), define words in terms of synonyms. The word horrid, for example, is glossed with words such as 'horrifying' and 'terrifying'. However, Shakespeare is more specific: he typically uses horrid to refer to fear caused by supernatural or unnatural acts, sights and sounds. The Encyclopaedia will use frequency information and linguistic context to reveal subtle patterns of meaning and usage, which have eluded Shakespearean scholarship.
A unique feature of the encyclopaedia is that comparisons are at its heart. Internal comparisons will reveal how Shakespeare's language varies. For instance, we will show how certain words, meanings, and structures are peculiar to tragedies, comedies or histories; to social groups; and to specific periods. For example, the exclamation ah, signalling emotional distress or pity, is characteristic of the histories, and occurs more than twice as densely in the speech of female characters compared with male. Moreover, state-of-the-art techniques will be used to compare Shakespeare's use of language with a 321-million-word corpus consisting of Early Modern texts across all extant genres, 1580 to 1640. These external comparisons will enable discovery not only of specific uses characteristic of Shakespeare, but also of the 'flavour' of particular items (e.g. whether certain words were considered colloquial, religious, courteous, etc.). For example, Ah is used relatively frequently by Shakespeare, compared with his contemporaries, and, despite being characteristic of the histories, is strongly colloquial in flavour, occurring densely in speech-related genres (e.g. trial proceedings).
The major output from the project will be a two-volume encyclopaedia, designed to be accessible to a wide range of users. The first volume will focus on words, including multi-word expressions. For example, Shakespeare had a penchant for using multi-word expressions beginning with the pronoun I (e.g. 'I pray you') - something which gives insight into an important mechanism of his dialogue. The second volume will focus on patterns of words and how they constitute idiolects for characters, sociolects for groups of characters and themes for plays and groups of plays (tragedies/comedies/histories). For example, Juliet's idiolect features words such as if and yet - words that reflect her anxieties.
The encyclopaedia will be launched in three versions: paper, web-based and as an app. Moreover, the project will make available both its comprehensively annotated Shakespeare texts and its work on the comparative data, and provide various training opportunities and resources (e.g. youtube videos, a miniMOOC) on how to use them. Users will be able to pursue their own specific research interests.
Planned Impact
Three non-academic user groups will derive particular benefit from our project:
(1) General public and the media. The timing of our project coincides with a period of heightened global interest in Shakespeare, sparked not least by the anniversary of his birth in 2014 and the 400th anniversary of his death in 2016. Our research will benefit the multitude of members of the public who take a keen interest in Shakespeare by reading the plays, going to see performances, watching plays or films on television, visiting exhibitions, and so on. It will deepen their appreciation of Shakespeare's work, and help magnify the global benefit for the United Kingdom. We have already commenced work with the media, notably the BBC, who are actively preparing for 2016 celebrations and beyond.
(2) Education users. Concurrent with the international celebration of Shakespeare in 2016 is the implementation of the revised national curriculum, which gives Shakespeare more prominence at secondary level. Our research is designed to offer teachers and students new insights and opportunities for exploring Shakespeare's language. For example, students will be able to use the app version of the encyclopaedia, a medium with which they are highly familiar, to unlock Shakespeare's language in near real time in the classroom.
(3) Professional users. These comprise two groups. One is theatre practitioners, from directors to actors. We will help these users enhance their practice by exploiting our new, empirically based interpretations of Shakespeare's language in its contemporary contexts. For example, RSC Director Greg Doran reported that the company had been unsure of the sense of word 'beshrew' in recent rehearsal of Henry IV (Pt.2). PI Culpeper had responded to Doran, showing that no current Shakespearean dictionary did justice to the actual meaning of 'beshrew'. The other group is curators and other professionals working in museums and galleries at international, national and local levels with Shakespeare connections or holdings (e.g. The Folger Institute; Shakespeare Centre; The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust; the British Library; and numerous regional exhibition spaces). We will help these users better understand what exactly they are curating. They will benefit especially from our comparative work, assessing the distinctiveness of Shakespeare's language relative to his contemporaries.
(1) General public and the media. The timing of our project coincides with a period of heightened global interest in Shakespeare, sparked not least by the anniversary of his birth in 2014 and the 400th anniversary of his death in 2016. Our research will benefit the multitude of members of the public who take a keen interest in Shakespeare by reading the plays, going to see performances, watching plays or films on television, visiting exhibitions, and so on. It will deepen their appreciation of Shakespeare's work, and help magnify the global benefit for the United Kingdom. We have already commenced work with the media, notably the BBC, who are actively preparing for 2016 celebrations and beyond.
(2) Education users. Concurrent with the international celebration of Shakespeare in 2016 is the implementation of the revised national curriculum, which gives Shakespeare more prominence at secondary level. Our research is designed to offer teachers and students new insights and opportunities for exploring Shakespeare's language. For example, students will be able to use the app version of the encyclopaedia, a medium with which they are highly familiar, to unlock Shakespeare's language in near real time in the classroom.
(3) Professional users. These comprise two groups. One is theatre practitioners, from directors to actors. We will help these users enhance their practice by exploiting our new, empirically based interpretations of Shakespeare's language in its contemporary contexts. For example, RSC Director Greg Doran reported that the company had been unsure of the sense of word 'beshrew' in recent rehearsal of Henry IV (Pt.2). PI Culpeper had responded to Doran, showing that no current Shakespearean dictionary did justice to the actual meaning of 'beshrew'. The other group is curators and other professionals working in museums and galleries at international, national and local levels with Shakespeare connections or holdings (e.g. The Folger Institute; Shakespeare Centre; The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust; the British Library; and numerous regional exhibition spaces). We will help these users better understand what exactly they are curating. They will benefit especially from our comparative work, assessing the distinctiveness of Shakespeare's language relative to his contemporaries.
Organisations
Publications
Archer D
(2020)
Depictions of deception: A corpus-based analysis of five Shakespearean characters
in Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics
Crystal D
(2020)
Afterword
in Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics
Culpeper J
(2021)
Politeness reciprocity in Shakespeare's dialogue The case of thanks
in Journal of Historical Pragmatics
Culpeper J
(2021)
Supporting the corpus-based study of Shakespeare's language: Enhancing a corpus of the First Folio
in ICAME Journal
Culpeper J
(2020)
Shakespeare's language: Styles and meanings via the computer
in Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics
Culpeper J
(2020)
National identities in the context of Shakespeare's Henry V : Exploring contemporary understandings through collocations
in Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics
Culpeper J
(2017)
The influence of Italian manners on politeness in England, 1550-1620
in Journal of Historical Pragmatics
Culpeper J
(2022)
Measuring emotional temperatures in Shakespeare's drama
in English Text Construction
| Description | A milestone was achieved with the publication of a special issue (volume 29, issue three) of the international Journal Language and Literature written by members of and devoted to the project. Various findings were reported in this project, all made possible by the Enhanced Shakespearean Corpus mentioned above. These include: - How early modern understandings of Shakespeare's Celtic characters in Henry the fifth were shaped by their particular understandings of Scottish, Irish and Welsh people at that time. We demonstrate a corpus-based method for reconstructing those identities. - We showed how there were particular interactions between gender, status and genre in Shakespeare's plays. - We constructed a corpus-based method for revealing how depictions of deception, and particularly deceptive characters, work in Shakespeare's place. - We showed the patterns of grammar that characterise Shakespeare's plays, and moreover how they differ from those of his contemporaries. - We revealed what exactly students find difficult when they read Shakespeare's language, and proposed some solutions to those difficulties. - We showed how particular words pattern in Shakespeare's epilogues and last words. |
| Exploitation Route | The special issue mentioned above not only described particular phenomena (e.g. seven types of literary character), but also outlined and highlighted methods by which the data/corpora developed through the project can be exploited. As the data is available, anybody can undertake similar studies. |
| Sectors | Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| URL | http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/shakespearelang/ |
| Description | All details about the specific events are logged elsewhere on Researchfish. Regarding public events, at the beginning of the project, public engagement was triggered by multiple press releases. We continue our media engagement with regular blogs, website updates and twitter activity. More particularly, we have engaged in two public events which not only increased awareness of the project, but changed people's perceptions of Shakespeare's language by exploding a number of myths, and initiated changes in their own practices (e.g. teaching methods). One was the English Shared Futures conference (2017), which attracted approximately 40 attendees from a wide range of disciplines and professional practices, including academics, teachers, and actors. The other was a talk hosted by the Folger Shakespeare Library, U.S.A., 2018, "' Words, words, words': Discoveries from the Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare's Language Project". This attracted an audience of 60 people from varied backgrounds (some were simply local residents in Washington D.C.). Regarding educational events, we conducted two school visits in 2017, Winstanley College in Wigan, and Manchester Academy, hosted at Lancaster. In total, these involved approximate 60 participants. These were designed to assist the school pupils with Shakespeare in their A-Levels, and teachers with their practices. The Manchester Academy event was part of widening participation in university education endeavour. Afterwards, the school commented that the talk had made the works of Shakespeare more accessible to students, and it succeeded in breaking down the mental block that students often face. In 2017, we also engaged with university students, almost 100 3rd year undergraduate English Studies students at the University of Barcelona. Students do a module on "Shakespeare's Theatre", and have read three of his plays. It was reported that everyone enjoyed the talk. From 27-30th July 2017, 189 students joined us on the Lancaster University campus for the Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics and other Digital Methods. The Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare's Language project had a dedicated role within the humanities stream, with 21 students signed up to join us on the four-day programme. The main point of this summer school was to equip participant with the skills to do things differently in their own work environments, be that schools or theatres, for example. The event resulted in a series of blog posts, requests for further information, and plans made for future activity. One (non-academic) participant decided to write about the project at length on her blog. This will have an international reach across a wide range of audiences. We continue with our presence at public events. In July 2018, Members of the project team attended the British Shakespeare Association: Shakespeare Studies Today conference, held in Belfast, UK. The team had a panel session which enabled us to reach actors and A-Level English teachers. The audience, about 50, reported on how the project findings would be useful to their own work. In addition, in February 2019, Jonathan Culpeper gave a public lecture entitled "Shakespeare and the English Language" in Lancaster (UK), reaching around 75 people, around a two-thirds of who were members of the public. Guests reported interest in the new methods used to study Shakespeare, and found the debunked myths particularly fascinating. Last year we tackled North America; this year we are doing more in Europe. Dr Sean Murphy attended Blanquerna, Universitat Ramon Llull in May 2018 to give a workshop on using literature to teach language. Workshop attendants, of whom there were around 50, were future primary school teachers specialising in English, and naturally our work on Shakespeare's language fed into this. Jonathan Culpeper also gave a talk on the project's outreach work at a one-day symposium held at Lancaster University. The event was organised by Native Explorers, a science education and outreach initiative co-organised by Lancaster University, the Native Scientist project, and the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and a guest lecture at the University of Udine, Italy. The annual summer school took place from 25-28th July 2018, over 100 students joined us on the Lancaster University campus for the Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics. Researchers from the project team played had a significant presence throughout the whole summer school, holding a series of talks and workshops related to both Shakespeare's language and Early Modern English. One of the summer school's plenary lectures was given by Jonathan Culpeper, exploring Shakespeare's language with corpus techniques. All summer school attendees were in this plenary lecture, resulting in a series of tweets, requests for further information, and plans made for future activity. In addition, one of the summer school's workshops was given by Jonathan Culpeper and Jane Demmen, exploring Shakespeare's language with corpus techniques. More generally, as usual, we continue our media engagement with regular blogs, website updates and Twitter activity. We continue with our presence at public events. For example, in July 2019, Members of the project team attended the 'British Shakespeare Association Conference: Shakespeare, Race and Nation' conference, held in Swansea, UK. The team had a panel session which enabled us to reach actors and A-Level English teachers. Also, we continued we our annual summer school took, 24-27th July 2018, with very similar activities and impacts as described for 2018. A key new type of event took place on 28th June 2019, when we hosted a Symposium on the Lancaster University campus which attracted around 60 attendees, and was also live streamed on Twitter. The symposium was designed to show audiences which tools and resources would be made available to them as a result of the project. Impacts for 2019 were marked by two developments. First, we increased our media exposure, being the focal point of a BBC Radio 3 podcast on 'New thinkers', and being interviewed in a BBC Four TV documentary (see Engagement entries on ResearchFish for details). Second, we released the enriched corpora that are driving our encyclopedia forward (see Research Databases and Methods entry on ResearchFish for details). This will be a major resource for students, practitioners and scholars. The last year has seen a slightly stronger concentration of effort on the research outputs than impact. Nevertheless, we have achieved some impact activities of note. Jonathan Culpeper published "Words, words, words: The hunt for Shakespeare's neologisms" in the English and Media Centre's EMagazine (February issue, p.59-61). This publication has a wide circulation amongst schools in the UK, where it is read by both teachers and students (mostly A-level students). Isolde van Dorst and Sean Murphy give a talk on our corpus resources and how to use them to postgraduate students at the University of Leipzig, Germany. Jonathan Culpeper gave a talk on myths about the English language, with a focus on Shakespeare's neologisms, to PhD students at the University of Rome, Italy. He also gave a talk on Shakespeare's language and corpus-based methods for exploring it to students and staff at University of Al-Qadisiyah, Iraq. All of these talks were given online. Although there have been many negative sides to COVID, the increased use of Internet talks has enabled us to democratise the way in which we share knowledge (e.g. you don't have to pay to travel anywhere). This is especially the case for our talk Iraq, where devastated by war and terrorism, they simply do not have the resources to travel anywhere (not to mention the problems of getting visas). The talk was well attended, with towards 100 participants from more than one university. We had intended to run our MOOC this last year (in July 2020), but we were prevented from doing so by COVID, as the filming with the camera team was not possible. We have delayed this by one year. Finally, we have maintained activity on the project' Twitter account. July to August 2021, we ran the MOOC "Shakespeare's Language: Revealing Meanings and Exploring Myths". This is based entirely on datasets and materials created within the project. The description of the MOOC was as follows: "William Shakespeare is a global phenomenon, yet there is actually relatively little work specifically devoted to his language, and even less deploying the latest techniques from linguistics. On this course, you will explore Shakespeare's language and, more generally, the language of his time. Over four weeks, you will be introduced to "big data" corpus methods (methods that use computers to explore large volumes of language data) which you can use for your own investigations, and will explore how words and meanings pattern across plays, characters, and more. Along the way, you will find out why various beliefs about Shakespeare's life and language-like that he coined an extraordinary number of new words-are actually myths". The MOOC was a great success: 3,400 learners have joined the course, and positive comments are many (e.g. "Thank you for these amazing four weeks!"). Learners have come from many different walks of live (including many retirees). I wrote the piece 'Five myths about Shakespeare's contribution to the English Language' with Mathew Gillings, and it was published in August 2022 in The Conversation. It attracted over 40,000 readers within one month. In September 2022, we ran the MOOC again. It has now achieved 4,330 enrolments, and an 4.5 average review score on a 5-point scale (n=65). |
| First Year Of Impact | 2022 |
| Sector | Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Economic |
| Title | The Enhanced Shakespearean Corpus (ESC) |
| Description | Our core data, the Enhanced Shakespearean Corpus (ESC), was released. It principally consists of three components (click on the component for details): (1) ESC: First Folio Plus (ESC: Folio): The corpus captures what might be considered Shakespeare's "canon". It includes the 36 plays published as the First Folio in 1623, plus The Two Noble Kinsmen and Pericles. (2) ESC: Comparative Plays (ESC: Comp): The corpus is similar in size to the canon of Shakespeare's plays overall (around 1 million words), and in its proportions of comedy, history and tragedy. It contains 46 plays by 24 playwrights (22 of whom are named, two of whom are anonymous), with first production dates ranging from 1584-1626 (compared to Shakespeare's plays, written circa 1590-1613). (3) ESC: EEBO-TCP Segment (ESC: EEBO): The corpus comprises some 380 million words, taken from EEBO-TCP, spanning the 80-year period 1560-1639 and incorporates diverse genres. The IP in the Enhancements made to these texts belongs to the project. It is subject to the a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA). The IP in the underlying electronic texts of the ESC:Folio belongs to the University of Victoria and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA). The IP in the underlying electronic texts used in ESC:Comp and ESC:EEBO belongs to the Text Creation Partnership (TCP), as they are drawn from the EEBO-TCP phase 1 release. The TCP's terms on the use of EEBO-TCP phase 1 may be found here: https://www.textcreationpartnership.org/tcp-eebo/ |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2019 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | They have only just been released. |
| URL | http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/shakespearelang/project-resources/data/ |
| Description | 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHLXX) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Jonathan Culpeper and Catarina Guardamagna gave a lecture entitled "Shakespeare's Latin: A pragmatic perspective" at the 20th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHLXX) in Edinburgh, UK. The talk was primarily attended by an academic audience from an international background. Attendees reported on the unique nature of the study and wanted to learn more about the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | 7th International Conference on Stylistics and the 11th National Conference on Stylistics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Jonathan Culpeper attended the 7th International Conference on Stylistics and the 11th National Conference on Stylistics held in Fuzhou, China. The audience consisted of around 150 attendees: around half of them were students, with the other half primarily academic. This is the first time that the project has been discussed in China, which is an especially important audience. The encyclopaedia will be incredibly useful for second-language speakers of English encountering Shakespeare for the first time. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | A magazine or newsletter (Words, words, words: The hunt for Shakespeare's neologisms - an article of schools) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | J. Culpeper wrote a piece entitled "Words, words, words: The hunt for Shakespeare's neologisms". The magazine is widely read by school teachers and students in the UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | A talk or presentation - Guest lecture (Sapienza Universita di Roma) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Jonathan Culpeper spoke to the postgraduates about myths about Shakespeare's language. This sparked much debate. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | A talk or presentation - Guest lecture (University of Al-Qadisiyah, Iraq) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Although I was invited to give this talk by a specific university, the invitation was shared across the region. Universities in Iraq have been devastated by war and terrorism. I was able to share my work with staff and students and hopefully update them on the state-of-the-art and inspire them in their own work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | AHRC, Shakespeare's Language |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Project featured on the AHRC website after the grant was awarded. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/research/readwatchlisten/features/shakespeares-language/ |
| Description | BBC Four TV documentary interview |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The PI, Jonathan Culpeper, was inteviewed in the BBC Four documentary "Scuffles, Swagger, and Shakespeare: The Hidden Story of English" presented by Dr. John Gallagher. He discussed results from the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07h2z4r |
| Description | BBC Radio 3 Podcast |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Jonathan Culpeper and Alison Findlay feature in a new 45-minute BBC Radio 3 Podcast called "New thinking: Shakespeare's Language", presented by John Gallagher. They discuss 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. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07h2z4r |
| Description | Blog post - Method-writing.com, Writing Tips from Shakespeare - Lancaster University's Language Detectives |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | After hearing a series of talks about the project on the Shakespeare Summer School we held at Lancaster University from 27-30th July, a playwright in the audience decided to write about the project at length on her blog. This will have an international reach across a wide range of audiences, significantly raising the profile of the project. Given that the author of the blog post is a playwright with access to many different professional practioners and students, we envisage future collaboration. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.method-writing.com/writing-tips-shakespeare-lancaster-university-language-detectives/ |
| Description | Blog post - Sociolinguini, Lancaster University Corpus Linguistics Summer School Day 1 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | After hearing a series of talks about the project on the Shakespeare Summer School we held at Lancaster University from 27-30th July, a participant decided to write about the project at length on her blog. This will have an international reach across a wide range of audiences, significantly raising the profile of the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://sociolinguini.wordpress.com/2017/06/28/lancaster-university-corpus-linguistics-summer-school... |
| Description | British Shakespeare Association Conference 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Members of the project team attended the British Shakespeare Association: Shakespeare Studies Today conference, held in Belfast, UK. The team had a panel session at which Sean Murphy and Jonathan Culpeper presented on some impact work currently being carried out as part of the project: investigating what students find difficult when they read Shakespeare. The panel was attended by a whole range of people from an academic background (linguistics, English literature, and drama), plus some actors and A-Level English teachers. The audience reported on how the project findings may be useful to their own work, and how they can see value in investigating Shakespeare's texts in this way. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | British Shakespeare Association Conference 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Members of the project team attended the British Shakespeare Association: Shakespeare Studies Today conference, held in Belfast, UK. The team had a panel session at which Jonathan Culpeper and Jane Demmen presented on how corpus methods can be used to investigate cultural understandings of "good" and "bad". The panel was attended by a whole range of people from an academic background (linguistics, English literature, and drama), plus some actors and A-Level English teachers. The audience reported on how the project findings may be useful to their own work, and how they can see value in investigating Shakespeare's texts in this way. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | British Shakespeare Association Conference 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Members of the project team attended the British Shakespeare Association: Shakespeare Studies Today conference, held in Belfast, UK. The team had a panel session at which Dawn Archer, Alison Findlay, and Beth Cortese presented on the patterning of passions and other emotions across Shakespeare's works. The panel was attended by a whole range of people from an academic background (linguistics, English literature, and drama), plus some actors and A-Level English teachers. The audience reported on how the project findings may be useful to their own work, and how they can see value in investigating Shakespeare's texts in this way. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | British Shakespeare Association Conference 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Through two case studies, we introduced our methods and resources. Through contact from participants afterwards, we have some evidence that word about them spread. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | CASS, Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare's Language Project: A methodological journey |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Supporters |
| Results and Impact | Project featured on the CASS (research centre) website. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://cass.lancs.ac.uk/?p=1853 |
| Description | CMLTHS Conference (De Montford University) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Jane Demmen and Andrew Hardie spoke at the Computational Methods for Literary-Historical Textual Scholarship Conference at De Montford University. The audience primarily consisted of people from an academic background, including researchers, lecturers, and students from linguistics, English literature, and computer science. The audience found the novel application of computer methods to Shakespeare an interesting project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | CTS Hackathon (De Montford University) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Jonathan Culpeper gave a talk entitled "From simple word counts to collocates and keywords" at a Text Hackathon event organised by the Centre for Textual Studies at De Montford University in Leicester, UK. The hackathon event was open to anyone with an interest in textual analysis, including sixth form students, practioners, industry professionals, academics, and university undergraduate and postgraduate students. Jonathan's talk shared the wide range of analysis techniques that the team is using on the Shakespeare project, with the aim of encouraging participants to use similar techniques in their own analysis. The event was very well attended and participants reported a great deal of interest within the project, suggesting that they would also use those techniques in their own work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://cts.dmu.ac.uk/events/hackathon/index.html |
| Description | Corpus Linguistics International Conference 2017 (Birmingham) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Jonathan Culpeper and Amelia Joulain-Jay offered a first look at the database we are using to compile the Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare's Language. They also offered some early findings from the project. Conference delegates were largely other corpus linguists which not only allowed the project team to present and promote the project at the largest corpus linguistics conference in the world, but it also allowed us to gather feedback from potential users of the corpus. Conference delegates were impressed by the progress being made so far, and praised the significance of the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Documents/college-artslaw/corpus/conference-archives/2017/general/paper6... |
| Description | Digital Humanities Research Forum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Jonathan Culpeper, Jane Demmen, and Andrew Hardie discussed some of the issues that they had encountered at the Digital Humanities Research Forum at Lancaster University. Participants appreciated their frank insight, and reported that they learnt a lot about the method used. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare's Language Twitter |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The project Twitter account aims to: a) Promote research findings to the public; b) Feature blog posts from our research team about interesting findings along the way; c) Advertise our annual summer school to the 200 participants who join; d) Promote all outputs - media engagement, academic publications, conference presentations, public engagement; e) Provide a point of contact for anyone (media, public, academic, etc.) should they wish to contact us. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017 |
| URL | https://twitter.com/ShakespeareLang |
| Description | Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare's Language Website |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | The project website aims to: a) Promote research findings to the public; b) Feature blog posts from our research team about interesting findings along the way; c) Advertise our annual summer school to the 200 participants who join; d) Keep track of all outputs - media engagement, academic publications, conference presentations, public engagement; e) Provide details of the research team; f) Provide a comprehensive bibliography for people with an interest not only in the project, but in Shakespeare in general. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017 |
| URL | http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/shakespearelang/ |
| Description | English Historical Linguistics Conference (Essen) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Scholars with an interest in English Historical Linguistics attended for a conference. This talk discussed how Celtic characters in Shakespeare relate to our contemporary understandings of Welsh, Scottish and Irish Identities. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/shakespearelang/files/2016/12/Celtic-characters-in-Shakespeare.pdf |
| Description | English Studies Conference (Maribor) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Scholars with an interest in English Studies attended this plenary talk on how new developments in corpus linguistics afford new insights into Shakespeare's language. This prompted a great deal of discussion between delegates, not only about Shakespeare's language and this specific project, but about the benefits of using a corpus linguistic methodology in their own work (academic or otherwise). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://sdas.splet.arnes.si/2015/09/14/sdas-conference-2016-mking-it-new-in-english-studies/ |
| Description | Five myths about Shakespeare's contribution to the English Language |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An artictle was published in 'The Conversation'. It attracted over 40,000 readers within one month. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://theconversation.com/five-myths-about-shakespeares-contribution-to-the-english-language-18940... |
| Description | Guest lecture (Edge Hill University, UK) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Jonathan Culpeper gave a talk on the relationship between Shakespeare's language and corpus linguistics at Edge Hill University's linguistics research seminar. The talk resulted in a number of interesting questions being asked, provoking new ideas and interests. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/englishhistorycreativewriting/2019/02/18/lrs-culpeper/ |
| Description | Guest lecture (Leipzig, Germany) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Isolde van Dorst and Sean Murphy were invited to give a talk to MA students at the University of Leipzig. The talk provided an introduction to the project along with a discussion of two papers from the recently-released special issue. Attendees enjoyed hearing about the project and were looking forward to seeing its outputs as they become available. They were especially keen to use the tools and explore the corpora for themselves. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Guest lecture (Shakespeare Institute) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Jonathan Culpeper gave a lecture at the Shakespeare Institute, discussing the project and some early findings. Around 60 people were in attendance, with around 10 being academic and the rest most likely students. The Institute were keen to have further involvement and to be kept in the loop as the project progresses. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Guest lecture (University of British Columbia) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Jonathan Culpeper gave a guest lecture at University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He spoke to an audience of around 25 people, with all of them being academics at the university. The talk drew a suite of studies currently underway in the project, and, using those, exploded a number of myths. The talk attracted much positive feedback. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Guest lecture (University of Udine, Italy) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Jonathan Culpeper gave a guest lecture at the University of Udine, Italy. There were around 80 people in attendance, of whom about 60 were students (from secondary school, right through to PhD). This talk was highly important, given the usefulness of the encyclopaedia for English language learners encountering the works of Shakespeare for the first time. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Guest lecture (University of Uppsala, Sweden) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Jonathan Culpeper and Caterina Guardamagna gave a talk on Shakespeare's Latin at the University of Uppsala, Sweden. The talk was very well received, and resulted in future plans being made: the presenters will be putting in a joint application for funding, with academics at the University of Uppsala, to carry out further work in this area. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Guest lecture (University of Victoria) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Jonathan Culpeper gave a guest lecture at the University of Victoria in Canada. He spoke to an audience of around 60 people, with all of them being students at the university. The talk drew a suite of studies currently underway in the project, and, using those, exploded a number of myths. The talk attracted much positive feedback. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Guest lecture (University of Washington) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Jonathan Culpeper gave a guest lecture at University of Washington in Seattle. He spoke to an audience of around 30 people, with all of them being academics at the university. The talk drew a suite of studies currently underway in the project, and, using those, exploded a number of myths. The talk attracted much positive feedback. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://english.washington.edu/calendar?trumbaEmbed=eventid%3D126812725%26view%3Devent%26-childview%... |
| Description | Heritage Daily, Was it all Greek to the Elizabethans? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Project featured on Heritage Daily. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.heritagedaily.com/2016/07/was-it-all-greek-to-the-elizabethans/112257 |
| Description | Internal talk (Lancaster University) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Mathew Gillings was invited to give an internal talk to staff working within Lancaster University's Library as part of their Digital Humanities Special Interest Group. As part of the ongoing library refurbishment, a new (physical) area dedicated to Digital Humanities is under construction. Library staff were interested in learning about how they can better support digital humanities researchers at Lancaster, and this talk was designed to give a brief overview of the project and the contribution made by corpus-based methods. Library staff were highly interested in how these tools can uncover new insights into Shakespeare's language, and they suggested that the talk was helpful as they further plan this new area of the library. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Journal article (interview with Jonathan Culpeper) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Jonathan Culpeper was approached by Iolanda Plescia, one of the editors of Memoria di Shakespeare, a Journal of Shakespearean Studies, for interview. The interview was published in the journal, and disseminated through their channels. According to the journal website, the journal aspires to be an international reading and contributing audience, with each issue devoted to a single topic, explored from an interdisciplinary perspective and a variety of critical standpoints. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Lancaster Guardian, Lancaster University to explore Shakespeare language |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Project featured in the Lancaster Guardian. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.lancasterguardian.co.uk/news/lancaster-university-to-explore-shakespeare-language-1-80517... |
| Description | Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics and other Digital Methods - Lecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | From 27-30th July 2017, 189 students joined us on the Lancaster University campus for the Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics and other Digital Methods. The summer schools consist of six distinct streams, and students have the opportunity to join the stream most relevant to their own interests. The Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare's Language project had a significant role within the humanities stream, with 21 students signed up to join us on the four-day programme. Researchers from the project team played had a significant presence throughout the whole summer school, holding a series of talks and workshops related to both Shakespeare's language and Early Modern English. One of the lectures was given by Jonathan Culpeper, exploring Shakespeare's language with corpus techniques. All summer school attendees on the humanities stream were in this lecture, resulting in a series of blog posts, requests for further information, and plans made for future activity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics and other Digital Methods - Plenary lecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | From 27-30th July 2017, 189 students joined us on the Lancaster University campus for the Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics and other Digital Methods. The summer schools consist of six distinct streams, and students have the opportunity to join the stream most relevant to their own interests. The Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare's Language project had a significant role within the humanities stream, with 21 students signed up to join us on the four-day programme. Researchers from the project team played had a significant presence throughout the whole summer school, holding a series of talks and workshops related to both Shakespeare's language and Early Modern English. The most high profile talk of the four-day Summer School was a plenary lecture by Jonathan Culpeper entitled: Debunking myths about Shakespeare's language with corpus methods. All summer school attendees were at this lecture, resulting in a series of blog posts, requests for further information, and plans made for future activity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics and other Digital Methods - Shakespeare |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | From 27-30th July 2017, 189 students joined us on the Lancaster University campus for the Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics and other Digital Methods. The summer schools consist of six distinct streams, and students have the opportunity to join the stream most relevant to their own interests. The Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare's Language project had a significant role within the humanities stream, with 21 students signed up to join us on the four-day programme. Researchers from the project team played had a significant presence throughout the whole summer school, holding a series of talks and workshops related to both Shakespeare's language and Early Modern English. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics and other Digital Methods - Workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | From 27-30th July 2017, 189 students joined us on the Lancaster University campus for the Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics and other Digital Methods. The summer schools consist of six distinct streams, and students have the opportunity to join the stream most relevant to their own interests. The Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare's Language project had a significant role within the humanities stream, with 21 students signed up to join us on the four-day programme. Researchers from the project team played had a significant presence throughout the whole summer school, holding a series of talks and workshops related to both Shakespeare's language and Early Modern English. One of the lectures was given by Alison Findlay, looking at corpus use in Early Modern Literature studies. The lecture was then followed by a workshop which allowed students to explore the corpus used on the project, just like our researchers would do. All summer school attendees on the humanities stream were in this lecture, resulting in a series of blog posts, requests for further information, and plans made for future activity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Lancaster University, AHRC award to create a new Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare's Language |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Project featured in a Lancaster University press release and distributed to local, regional, and national media. Story was picked up by a whole range of news outlets (see other submissions), increasing the project's exposure and resulting in more interest. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/news-and-events/news/2016/ahrc-award-to-create-a-new-encyclop... |
| Description | Language Technologies, Digital Humanities |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Isolde van Dorst presented on "You, thou and thee: A statistical analysis of Shakespeare's use of pronominal address terms" at the Language Technologies, Digital Humanities conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The talk was attended by people from a machine learning and digital humanities perspective from an international background. Attendees were interested in the fusion of these areas, and requested further information about the dataset as a result. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Lecture (Lancaster University) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Jonathan Culpeper gave a public lecture entitled "Shakespeare and the English Language" in Lancaster (UK), reaching around 75 people. Guests reported interest in the new methods used to study Shakespeare, and found the debunked myths particularly fascinating. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Myths about Shakespeare's Language |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Talk given at the University of Lille, France, to undergraduates. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | New Historian, New Project Will Determine If a Rose By Any Name Was Still a Rose |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Project featured in New Historian. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.newhistorian.com/new-project-will-determine-rose-name-still-rose/6959/ |
| Description | Open day talk |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Jonathan Culpeper gave a talk at one of the university's departmental open days. The talk was attended by around 70 visitors, consisting of both prospective students and their guests. The talk attracted a great deal of discussion afterwards, with visitors commenting on both the usefulness of the method, and how interesting the initial findings were. WIthin the lecture, Jonathan also commented that some of the slides he used were taken directly from one of his first-year lectures, so students could expect to see similar content if they did decide to attend the university. Students reported that they were interested in applying to the department, given how interesting it was. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Panel Meeting |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The panel meeting was an opportunity for the project's advisors / ambassadors to visit our research centre and receive an update on progress being made on the project over the past year. More importantly, it was an opportunity for the panel to critically assess the project team's progress, and point out any flaws or difficulties that may arise. The day began at 9:45am, and ended at 2:30pm. Unlike last year which primarily consisted of a range of mini-presentations, this year was more meeting-focused. There was a discussion about progress made over the past year, followed by a demonstration of the interface. Feedback was then welcomed on the encyclopaedia introductions and the entries for Volume II. Finally, there was extensive discussion about future outreach and engagement activity, including the development of a MOOC. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Panel Meeting (Lancaster University) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | The panel meeting was an opportunity for the project's advisors / ambassadors to visit our research centre and learn more about our aims and ambitions. More importantly, it was also an opportunity for the wider panel to critically assess the project team's progress, and point out any flaws or difficulties that may arise. The day began at 10:30am, and ended at 4:30pm. The day consisted of a series of mini presentations focussing on results and method. There was also extensive discussion about the project's engagement and publicity activity, and how to decide on the most effective way to convey the encyclopaedia's information to its users. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/shakespearelang/2016/07/28/panel-meeting-27-july-2016/ |
| Description | Plenary lecture - Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | From 25-28th July 2018, over 100 students joined us on the Lancaster University campus for the Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics. The summer schools consist of three distinct streams, and students have the opportunity to join the stream most relevant to their own interests. The Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare's Language project had a significant role within the "Language, Discourse, and Society" stream. Researchers from the project team played had a significant presence throughout the whole summer school, holding a series of talks and workshops related to both Shakespeare's language and Early Modern English. One of the summer school's plenary lectures was given by Jonathan Culpeper, exploring Shakespeare's language with corpus techniques. All summer school attendees were in this plenary lecture, resulting in a series of tweets, requests for further information, and plans made for future activity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/corpussummerschools/language-discourse-society/ |
| Description | Podcast recording |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | A podcast about the project and its engagement activities was recorded with two media professionals. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Poetry and Linguistics Conference (Cagliari) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Scholars from across the globe attended for a Poetry and Linguistics conference. Not only did this project promote corpus linguistics in a discipline that has previously not used that method, but findings on Shakespeare's language stimulated debate amongst attending poets and literary scholars. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/shakespearelang/files/2016/12/I-in-Shakespeare-and-beyond.pdf |
| Description | Public lecture (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington D.C., USA) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Jonathan Culpeper gave a public lecture at the Folger Shakespeare Library. He spoke to an audience of 60 people from varied backgrounds (tourists, those with an interest in Shakespeare, and even some who were simply local residents in Washington D.C.). The talk drew a suite of studies currently underway in the project, and, using those, exploded a number of myths. The talk attracted much positive feedback. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.folger.edu/events/words-words-words-discoveries-from-the-encyclopaedia-of-shakespeare-s-... |
| Description | Research seminar (Florida State University) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Jonathan Culpeper gave a research seminar at Florida State University. He offered a behind the scenes look at the project, and demonstrated the data analysis tools. This then led to an informal discussion about the method and its usefulness for investigating Shakespeare's language. The seminar was attended by around 12 academics, and it attracted much positive feedback. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | ResearchResearch, My winning proposal: Putting Shakespeare together |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Featured on ResearchResearch.com. Story was picked up by other news outlets, resulting in increased media coverage and awareness of the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://youaretheref.researchresearch.com/news/article/?articleId=1361104 |
| Description | School Visit (Manchester Academy) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Manchester Academy approached a member of the project team, asking if a school visit to the Lancaster University campus could be arranged. The talk on Shakespeare's original pronunciation, given by Jonathan Culpeper and specifically designed to appeal to high school students studying Macbeth, was the focal point of the day. Afterwards, the school commented that the talk had made the works of Shakespeare more accessible to students, and it succeeded in breaking down the mental block that students often face. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | School Visit (Wigan) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Winstanley College in Wigan invited a member of our research team to their school to give a talk (to around 40 students) about current research happening within the department. Within the talk, our researcher discussed the project at length, which sparked discussion afterwards about the interplay between literature and linguistics. The researcher will be invited back next year to give subsequent talks. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | SemiWiki.com, Technology, Shakespeare, Linguistics and Combatting Terror |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Project featured in an article on SemiWiki.com, exploring the affordances of corpus linguistics as a methodology. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.semiwiki.com/forum/content/5994-technology-shakespeare-linguistics-combatting-terror.htm... |
| Description | Shakespeare's Language: An article for schools |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | An article on some of the early outcomes from the project. This magazine is probably the main English Lanaguage/Literature magazine for UK schools. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/shakespearelang/files/2020/03/e77_JCulpeper.pdf |
| Description | Symposium |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | On 28th June 2019, the project hosted a Symposium on the Lancaster University campus which attracted around 60 attendees. It was also live streamed on Twitter. The symposium was designed to show audiences which tools and resources would be made available to them as a result of the project. The project team also presented the results from a series of studies, demonstrating the types of analyses that might be done using those tools and resources. Plans were made for future engagement activity and academic work. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/linguistics/news-and-events/news/2019/encyclopedia-of-shakespeares-langu... |
| Description | Teaching workshop (Blanquerna, Universitat Ramon Llull) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Dr Sean Murphy attended Blanquerna, Universitat Ramon Llull in May 2018 to give a workshop on using literature to teach language. Workshop attendants were future primary school teachers specialising in English, and naturally our work on Shakespeare's language fed into this. Workshop feedback was very positive, with attendees reporting that they would definitely be incorporating our methods in future classes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | The Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare's Language Project: Reaching out |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Jonathan Culpeper gave a talk on the project's outreach work at a one-day symposium held at Lancaster University. The event was organised by Native Explorers, a science education and outreach initiative co-organised by Lancaster University, the Native Scientist project, and the Portuguese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The audience, consisting of both academics and non-academics (and many of them Portugese), reported that the talk was very interesting and they saw value in the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/native-scientist-lancaster/symposium/ |
| Description | The Visitor, Lancaster University to explore Shakespeare language |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Project featured in The Visitor. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.thevisitor.co.uk/news/lancaster-university-to-explore-shakespeare-language-1-8051740 |
| Description | Times Higher Education, Grant Winners |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Project featured in the Times Higher Education supplement. This article was essentially the springboard to much more media coverage of the project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/grant-winners-11-february-2016 |
| Description | University Visit (Augsburg) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Staff and students of the University of Augsburg attended our talk entitled "Shakespeare's Language: New Perspectives on Old Language". This was following an invite from the university to share our progress on the project thus far. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | University Visit (Manchester Metropolitan University) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Jonathan Culpeper delivered a talk about the project at Manchester Metropolitan University. The talk was aimed at both staff and students, and it introduced the project on a general level, discussing how corpus methods can aid the study of Shakespeare's language. Attendees appeared to enjoy the talk, and interesting questions were raised at the end regarding the project and its plans for the future. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | University Visit (University of Barcelona) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Sean Murphy gave two talks to 3rd year undergraduate English Studies students at the University of Barcelona. Students do a module on "Shakespeare's Theatre", and have read three of his plays. It was reported that everyone enjoyed the talk, Sean was invited back to give similar talks in the future, and there were even enquiries about Lancaster as a place to study after the talk had finished. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Workshop - Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | From 25-28th July 2018, over 100 students joined us on the Lancaster University campus for the Lancaster Summer Schools in Corpus Linguistics. The summer schools consist of three distinct streams, and students have the opportunity to join the stream most relevant to their own interests. The Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare's Language project had a significant role within the "Language, Discourse, and Society" stream. Researchers from the project team played had a significant presence throughout the whole summer school, holding a series of talks and workshops related to both Shakespeare's language and Early Modern English. One of the summer school's workshops was given by Jonathan Culpeper and Jane Demmen, exploring Shakespeare's language with corpus techniques. All summer school students on the "Language, Discourse, and Society" stream were in this lecture and workshop, resulting in a series of tweets, requests for further information, and plans made for future activity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |