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A corpus-based comparison between a simplified version of Romeo and Juliet and Shakespeare's original play, PaSTY talk by Elena Semino

Date: 31 October 2012 Time: 4.00-5.00 pm

Venue: Bowland North, SR 5

Shakespeare's plays are among the canonical literary works that have been simplified in a variety of editions aimed at readers who cannot easily access the original versions, due to their (young) age, lack of expertise and/or insufficient mastery of English as a foreign or second language. Previous studies on simplified or 'graded' readers have been concerned with their role in the teaching of English as a second or foreign language, particularly with respect to the acquisition of vocabulary. In this paper I report the results of a study that combined corpus-based methods with traditional 'manual' analysis in order to arrive at a systematic account of the differences between the original version of Romeo and Juliet and a particular simplified version, published in a series entitled Shakespeare Made Easy (Nelson Thornes), aimed primarily at older school-children (e.g. those preparing for GCSE tests in the UK). I will focus particularly on differences between the two versions of the play in terms of figurative language use, including metaphors, similes and metonymies.

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