Authors: Beatrix Busse
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-01-01 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
This study investigates the functions, meanings, and varieties of forms of address in Shakespeare s dramatic work. New categories of Shakespearean vocatives are developed and the grammar of vocatives is investigated in, above, and below the clause, following morpho-syntactic, semantic, lexicographical, pragmatic, social and contextual criteria. Going beyond the conventional