Interfacing Literary Studies with Corpus Approaches

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1 Journal of Foreign Languages IO - 03 March 2010 Vol.33 No.2 D * Interfacing Literary Studies with Corpus Approaches LI Jin 1 LANG Jianguo 2 1. College of Foreign Languages Capital Normal University Beijing China 2. School of English Language Literature and Culture Beijing International Studies University Beijing China Abstract Corpus approaches to literature have been in practice since the 1980s. Terms such as corpus stylistics computational stylistics stylometry statistical stylistics and quantitative stylistics have been adopted to refer to related research. The paper aims to clarify the above terms to characterize the features of the development of corpusbased study of literature and to demonstrate the significance of integrating corpus approaches into literary studies. While the earlier stage of such study is characterized by an analysis of the language of literature the testing of the patterns of speech and thought presentations in fiction and the attestation of intuitive literary interpretations the current development of the study is directed at exploring the hidden meaning in a literary text. It is contended that literary studies can be enriched when scholars make full use of corpus approaches on the basis of a critical reading of a literary text. Key words corpus literary studies stylistics * 82

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3 corpus-based approaches to 1981 Mick Short figurative language Geoffrey Leech Style in Fiction A linguistic introduction to English fictional prose corpus approaches to the language speech and thought presentation 13 of literature high 3 literature popular fiction broadsheet newspapers 4 tabloid narrator s report of voice internal narration writing presentation The methods I use here can be called corpus stylistics but the latter is so nascent a subfield of corpus linguistics that the designation is presumptuous

4 Corpus Approaches to the deviation 3 Language of Literature 19 collocation colligation 16 2 Bill Louw Peter Stockwell Michaela Mahlberg 2. patterns innovative categories collocations clusters lexical items local textual 獉獉獉獉獉 functions 21 獉獉 Firth node Semino E. and Short M. Corpus Stylistics Speech writing and thought presentation in a corpus of English narratives C. London Routledge John Sinclair form sense

5 獉 2007 獉獉獉獉獉獉 Ylva 90 Berglund Prytz Stubbs Kieran O Halloran 24 Stanley Fish 9 blending corpus linguistics and literature corpus approaches to the language of literature 86 9

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