Corpus Stylistics and Dickens’s Fiction Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics Series
Auteur : Mahlberg Michaela
This book presents an innovative approach to the language of one of the most popular English authors. It illustrates how corpus linguistic methods can be employed to study electronic versions of texts by Charles Dickens. With particular focus on Dickens?s novels, the book proposes a way into the Dickensian world that starts from linguistic patterns. The analysis begins with clusters, i.e. repeated sequences of words, as pointers to local textual functions. Combining quantitative findings with qualitative analyses, the book takes a fresh view on Dickens?s techniques of characterisation, the literary presentation of body language and speech in fiction. The approach brings together corpus linguistics, literary stylistics and Dickens criticism. It thus contributes to bridging the gap between linguistic and literary studies and will be a useful resource for both researchers and students of English language and literature.
1. Corpus stylistics 2. Textual building blocks of fictional worlds 3. Starting with the texts: corpora, clusters and lexical bundles 4. Groups of clusters for the identification of local textual functions 5. Character speech 6. Body language 7. As if and the narrator comment 8. Labels – contextualising and highlighting functions 9. Conclusions and outlook
Michaela Mahlberg is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Nottingham, UK.
Date de parution : 11-2012
15.2x22.9 cm
Date de parution : 05-2015
15.2x22.9 cm
Thèmes de Corpus Stylistics and Dickens’s Fiction :
Mots-clés :
local; textual; functions; lexical; bundles; dickenss; speech; clusters; linguistics; reference; Young Man; Local Textual Functions; Lexical Bundles; Body Part Nouns; Dickens’s Fiction; Lexico Grammatical Patterns; Speech Clusters; Textual Building Blocks; Mrs Nickleby; Semantic Prosody; Mr Dombey; Miss La Creevy; Key Word; Mr Dorrit; Mr Toots; Corpus Linguistics; Dickens’s Techniques; Mr Micawber; Mr Pickwick; Cluster Death; BNC; Significant Collocates; Text World Theory; Mrs Dombey; Frequent Collocates