Keyness: Words, parts-of-speech and semantic categories in the character-talk of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 29-59

  Culpeper, Jonathan ^a,b  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Key parts of speech; Key semantic domains; Keywords; Romeo and Juliet; Style; Style markers

Indexed keywords

EID: 85047699379     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.14.1.03cul     Document Type: Article

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