CorpusLinguisticsandLiteraryStudiesAimsandobjectivesYouwillbefamiliarwiththescope,rationaleandfindingsofsomeofthemainstudiescurrentlycarriedoutincorpus-basedliterarystudies;Youwillbeabletoreflectcriticallyonthemethodologyadoptedbycorpus-basedliterarystudies;Youwillbeawareoftheissuesthatcorpus-basedresearchattemptstoaddress.Stylistics(Wynne,2006)thestudyofthelanguageofliteratureafieldofempiricalinquiry,inwhichtheinsightsandtechniquesoflinguistictheoryareusedtoanalyzeliterarytextsCorpusstylistics?(Mahlberg,2007a)Corpuslinguisticsrepetition,norms,thetypicalLiterarystylisticsdeviationsfromnorms,creativelanguageuse“Whatcorpusstylisticscandobeyondtheobviousprovisionofquantitativedata,ishelpwiththeanalysisofanindividualtextbyprovidingvariousoptionsforthecomparisonofonetextwithgroupsofothertextstoidentifytendencies,intertextualrelationships,orreflectionsofsocialandculturalcontext.”(Mahlberg,2007a:221)“…individualtextscanbeexplainedonlyagainstabackgroundofwhatisnormalandexpectedingenerallanguageuse,andthisispreciselythecomparativeinformationthatquantitativecorpusdatacanprovide.Anunderstandingofthebackgroundoftheusualandeveryday–whathappensmillionsoftimes–isnecessaryinordertounderstandtheunique.”(Stubbs,2005:5)corpuslinguistics+literarystylistics=corpusstylistics?(Mahlberg,2007a)Corpusstylisticsistheanalysisofliterarytextsbyusingcorpuslinguistictechniques.Itcombinestheanalytictechniquesofcorpuslinguisticswiththegoalsofstylistics,thatis,itextractsliterarymeaningsfromliterarytextsbyusingcomputationalmeansofanalysis.RelationshipbetweenmeaningandformStylistics:howwesaywhatwesayCorpuslinguistics:whatwesaydependsonform

ResearchtargetsofcorpusstylisticsWordfrequencyCollocationWordcluster/n-gramLexical-grammaticalpattern/phraseologySemanticprosodyTopicfordiscussionWehavelookedatthreestudies:Stubbs(2005),O’Halloran(2007b),andStarcke(2006).Commentonthestudieswithregardtoresearchtargetsandthemethodsadopted.SuggestedreadingAdolphs,S.andR.Carter.2002.PointofviewandsemanticprosodiesinVirginiaWoolf’sTotheLighthouse,Poetica,7–20.Culpeper,J.2009.Keyness:Words,parts-of-speechandsemanticcategoriesinthecharacter-talkofShakespeare's'RomeoandJuliet'.InternationalJournalofCorpusLinguistics14(1):29-59.Louw,B.1993.Ironyinthetextorinsincerityinthewriter?Thediagnosticpotentialofsemanticprosodies.InM.Baker,G.FrancisandE.Tognini-Bonelli(eds.)TextandTechnology:InHonourofJohnSinclair,157–176.Philadelphia/Amsterdam:JohnBenjamins.Mahlberg,M.2007a.Corpusstylistics:bridgingthegapbetweenlinguisticandliterarystudies.InM.Hoey,M.Mahlberg,M.StubbsandW.Teubert(eds.)Text,DiscourseandCorpora:TheoryandAnalysis,219–246.London:Continuum.

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