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Sean Murphy

SUMMARY of research interests (100 words)

I work on the Encyclopaedia of Shakespeare’s Language project (AHRC project AH/N002415/1), which brings corpus linguistics to Shakespearean studies. My research interests include the language of Shakespeare's soliloquies, the stylistics of drama, (im)politeness theory, and corpus linguistics.

I have worked in ELT for over 30 years, mainly in Spain, but also in the UK, France and Egypt. My main interests lie in the teaching of language and literature in initial teacher training, and teaching English for academic purposes.

Qualifications

MSc in Teaching English, Aston University

1/01/19901/07/1992

Award Date: 1/07/1992

Diploma in the teaching of English as a foreign language to adults, Royal Society of Arts

1/07/19881/09/1987

Award Date: 1/07/1988

BA Joint Honours in English and French Language and Literature , University of Wales Bangor

15/09/19811/07/1985

Award Date: 1/07/1985

Employment

Senior Research Associate

Research

Linguistics and English Language

Lancaster University

Lancaster, United Kingdom

1/06/201614/06/2019

MPhil/PhD, The Language of Self-Talk in Shakespeare's Plays

Linguistics and English Language

Lancaster University

Lancaster, United Kingdom

Supervised by: Jonathan Vaughan Culpeper

1/01/200518/08/2014

Research output

Mapping the links between gender, status and genre in Shakespeare’s plays

Murphy, S., Archer, D. & Demmen, J., 31/08/2020, In: Language and Literature. 29, 3, p. 223-245 23 p.

What do students find difficult when they read Shakespeare? Problems and solution

Murphy, S., Culpeper, J., Gillings, M. & Pace-Sigge, M., 31/08/2020, In: Language and Literature. 29, 3, p. 302-326 25 p.

Shakespeare and his contemporaries: Designing a genre classification scheme for Early English Books Online 1560-1640

Murphy, S. E., 7/04/2019, In: ICAME Journal. p. 59-82 24 p.

‘A language that I understand not’ What do students find difficult when they read Shakespeare?

Murphy, S. E. & Culpeper, J. V., 18/06/2018, (Unpublished).

I will proclaim myself what I am: corpus stylistics and the language of Shakespeare’s soliloquies

Murphy, S. E., 11/2015, In: Language and Literature. 24, 4, p. 338-354 17 p., 4.

Book Review: Giuseppina Balossi, A Corpus Linguistic Approach to Literary Language and Characterization: Virginia Woolf’s The Waves

Murphy, S. E., 05/2015, In: Language and Literature. 24, 2, p. 171-173 3 p.

Am I politic? (Im)politeness in Shakespeare’s soliloquies

Murphy, S. E., 2015, p. 1-19. 19 p.

The language of self-talk in Shakespeare's plays

Murphy, S. E., 2014, (Unpublished) Lancaster University. 311 p.

Now I am alone: a corpus stylistic approach to Shakespearian soliloquies

Murphy, S. E., 2007, Papers from LAEL PG 2006. Vol. 1. p. 66-85 20 p.

Activities

Shakespeare's Language

Sean Murphy (Speaker)

23/11/2017

Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (Journal)

Sean Murphy (Peer reviewer)

1/11/201730/11/2017

Corpora (Journal)

Sean Murphy (Peer reviewer)

1/10/201731/10/2017

PALA 2015

Sean Murphy (Speaker)

17/07/201518/07/2015

PALA 2008

Sean Murphy (Speaker)

2008

Lancaster University Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics and Language Teaching

Sean Murphy (Speaker)

1/07/2006