Corpus Stylistics in Principles and Practice

2011-03-17
Corpus Stylistics in Principles and Practice
Author: Yufang Ho
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2011-03-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1441197214
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In this book, Yufang Ho compares the text style difference between the two versions of John Fowles' The Magus, exemplifying the methodological principles and analytic practices of the corpus stylistic approach. The Magus was first published in 1966 and was revised and republished by Fowles in 1977. Fowles' own comment on the second edition was that it was 'rather more than a stylistic revision.' The book explores how the revised version is linguistically different from the original, especially in terms of point of view (re) representation. The corpus stylistic approach adopted combines qualitative and quantitative comparison to confirm the overall text style difference. The analysis demonstrates that computer assisted methods can identify significant linguistic features which literary critics have not noticed and provide a more detailed descriptive basis for literary interpretation of (either edition) of the novel. This analysis of The Magus serves as a case study and exemplar of how corpus techniques may be used generally in the study of linguistics.

Corpus Stylistics in Principles and Practice

2011-03-17
Corpus Stylistics in Principles and Practice
Author: Yufang Ho
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2011-03-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1441124713
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In this book, Yufang Ho compares the text style difference between the two versions of John Fowles' The Magus, exemplifying the methodological principles and analytic practices of the corpus stylistic approach. The Magus was first published in 1966 and was revised and republished by Fowles in 1977. Fowles' own comment on the second edition was that it was 'rather more than a stylistic revision.' The book explores how the revised version is linguistically different from the original, especially in terms of point of view (re) representation. The corpus stylistic approach adopted combines qualitative and quantitative comparison to confirm the overall text style difference. The analysis demonstrates that computer assisted methods can identify significant linguistic features which literary critics have not noticed and provide a more detailed descriptive basis for literary interpretation of (either edition) of the novel. This analysis of The Magus serves as a case study and exemplar of how corpus techniques may be used generally in the study of linguistics.

Corpus Stylistics

2019
Corpus Stylistics
Author: Dan McIntyre
Publisher: EUP
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Corpora (Linguistics)
ISBN: 9781474413213
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This theoretical and practical guide to using corpus linguistic techniques in stylistic analysis focuses on how to use off-the-shelf corpus software, such as AntConc, Wmatrix, and the Brigham Young University (BYU) corpus interface.

Developing Linguistic Corpora

2005
Developing Linguistic Corpora
Author: Martin Wynne
Publisher: Oxbow Books Limited
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2005
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:
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A linguistic corpus is a collection of texts which have been selected and brought together so that language can be studied on the computer. Today, corpus linguistics offers some of the most powerful new procedures for the analysis of language, and the impact of this dynamic and expanding sub-discipline is making itself felt in many areas of language study. In this volume, a selection of leading experts in various key areas of corpus construction offer advice in a readable and largely non-technical style to help the reader to ensure that their corpus is well designed and fit for the intended purpose. This guide is aimed at those who are at some stage of building a linguistic corpus. Little or no knowledge of corpus linguistics or computational procedures is assumed, although it is hoped that more advanced users will find the guidelines here useful. It is also aimed at those who are not building a corpus, but who need to know something about the issues involved in the design of corpora in order to choose between available resources and to help draw conclusions from their studies.

Stylistics

2010-09-30
Stylistics
Author: Lesley Jeffries
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2010-09-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0521405645
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An introduction to the study of style in language, offering practical advice on how to stylistically analyse texts.

Corpus Linguistics

2011-10-06
Corpus Linguistics
Author: Tony McEnery
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2011-10-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1139502441
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Corpus linguistics is the study of language data on a large scale - the computer-aided analysis of very extensive collections of transcribed utterances or written texts. This textbook outlines the basic methods of corpus linguistics, explains how the discipline of corpus linguistics developed and surveys the major approaches to the use of corpus data. It uses a broad range of examples to show how corpus data has led to methodological and theoretical innovation in linguistics in general. Clear and detailed explanations lay out the key issues of method and theory in contemporary corpus linguistics. A structured and coherent narrative links the historical development of the field to current topics in 'mainstream' linguistics. Practical tasks and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter encourage students to test their understanding of what they have read and an extensive glossary provides easy access to definitions of technical terms used in the text.

Statistics in Corpus Linguistics

2018-09-20
Statistics in Corpus Linguistics
Author: Vaclav Brezina
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2018-09-20
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1107125707
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A comprehensive and accessible introduction to statistics in corpus linguistics, covering multiple techniques of quantitative language analysis and data visualisation.

Corpus Stylistics

2004-06-24
Corpus Stylistics
Author: Elena Semino
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2004-06-24
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1134447205
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This book represents a new direction at the interface between the fields of stylistics and corpus linguistics, namely the use of a corpus methodology to investigate how people's words and thoughts are presented in written narratives.

Fundamental Principles of Corpus Linguistics

2022-09-29
Fundamental Principles of Corpus Linguistics
Author: Tony McEnery
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2022-09-29
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1009428985
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How might evidence of language use – writing and speech – be used as a way of studying language? Corpus linguistics is the study of linguistic data from a particular language or set of languages. It is a fast-moving approach to studying language, and there is still a degree of divergence in how research questions are approached using corpus data. This book uses a framework, based on the work of Karl Popper, to explore a number of fundamental issues in corpus linguistics. It critically evaluates how these issues are tackled, and proposes a set of best practices for future research. It spells out why using corpus data is valuable, what we can learn from using it, and how we may most effectively progress our understanding of language by using such data. It is essential reading for researchers and students of language in general, and of applied linguistics and English language in particular.