Lynne Magnusson, University of Toronto

Research

Shakespeare language rhetoric discourse analysis history of grammar history of education grammatical moods cultural translation

Latest funding

Shakespeare's language and the grammar of possibility
SSHRC · 2014 · Principal investigator
$76,104
Early modern letter-writing in English, 1535-1635: language, culture, and related literature
SSHRC · 2006 · Principal investigator
$61,842
Language and Love's Labour's Lost: text and contexts
SSHRC · 2002 · Principal investigator
$53,300

All 3 grants and awards

Shakespeare's language and the grammar of possibility

Principal investigatorSSHRC2014Insight Grants

Principal investigators: Magnusson, Lynne A.

Keywords: Shakespeare; language; rhetoric; discourse analysis; history of grammar; history of education; grammatical moods; cultural translation; social discourse; potential mood; subjunctive; optative mood; stylistic criticism; grammatical theatricality

$76,104

Early modern letter-writing in English, 1535-1635: language, culture, and related literature

Principal investigatorSSHRC2006Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Magnusson, Lynne A.

Keywords: early modern letters; epistolary rhetoric; correspondence; language of letters; discourse analysis; cultural history; Renaissance literature and culture; genre of the letter; social relations; historical pragmatics; shakespeare's language

$61,842

Language and Love's Labour's Lost: text and contexts

Principal investigatorSSHRC2002Standard Research Grants

Principal investigators: Magnusson, Lynne A.

Keywords: shakespeare; text; language; historicism; rhetoric; performance; pragmatics; society; letters; renaissance; drama; sociolinguistics; discourse analysis

$53,300

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

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