Corpus Linguistics in Literary Analysis Jane Austen and her Contemporaries

by Fischer-starcke, Bettina

• ISBN13: 9781847064387
• ISBN10: 1847064388
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-10-28
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

Provides a theoretical introduction to corpus stylistics and also demonstrates its application, presenting corpus stylistic analyses of literary texts and corpora.

Author Biography

Bettina Fischer-Starcke is Assistant Professor at the Institute for English Business Communication, Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. xi
List of Figures	p. xii
Preface	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Stylistics and style	p. 2
The data	p. 8
The potential and goals of corpus stylistic analyses	p. 10
Goals, techniques, principles	p. 13
The theory	p. 13
Corpora, texts, software	p. 27
Concluding comments	p. 32
Language and meaning	p. 34
Stylistics and meaning	p. 39
Stylistics - the background	p. 40
The classics	p. 42
Cognitive stylistics	p. 53
Corpus stylistics	p. 55
Concluding comments	p. 60
Summary of Northanger Abbey	p. 63
Keywords and concordance lines	p. 65
Keywords in the literature	p. 67
The text NA	p. 70
Excursus: grammatical negation in NA	p. 92
The corpus Austen	p. 94
Concluding comments	p. 105
Phraseology	p. 108
Phraseology in the literature	p. 111
The text NA: data and analysis	p. 115
The corpus Austen: data and analysis	p. 134
The corpus ContempLit data and analysis	p. 138
Concluding comments	p. 142
Text segmentation	p. 144
Cohesion and coherence	p. 146
The text NA: the data	p. 148
Segmentation of the corpus Austen	p. 176
Linguistic homogeneity and heterogeneity	p. 184
Concluding comments	p. 193
Conclusion	p. 195
Appendix	p. 202
Notes	p. 205
References	p. 207
Index of Names	p. 221
Index of Subjects	p. 224
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