A corpus linguistic approach to literary language and characterization : Virginia Woolf's the waves / Giuseppina Balossi
- 作者： Balossi, Giuseppina
- 出版： Amsterdam ;Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company 2014
- 叢書名： Linguistic approaches to literature ;18
- 主題： Woolf, Virginia 1882-1941. , Language and languages--Style--Psychological aspects , Cognitive grammar. , Discourse analysis, Literary , Psychological fiction, English--History and criticism
- ISBN： 9789027234070 (hbk.) :: US$114.6 、 9027234078 (hbk.)
- 一般註：Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-209) and index
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- 系統號： 005222568 | 機讀編目格式
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This book focusses on computer methodologies as a way of investigating language and character in literary texts. Both theoretical and practical, it surveys investigations into characterization in literary linguistics and personality in social psychology, before carrying out a computational analysis of Virginia Woolf's experimental novel The Waves. Frequencies of grammatical and semantic categories in the language of the six speaking characters are analyzed using Wmatrix software developed by UCREL at Lancaster University. The quantitative analysis is supplemented by a qualitative analysis into recurring patterns of metaphor. The author concludes that these analyses successfully differentiate all six characters, both synchronically and diachronically, and claims that this methodology is also applicable to the study of personality in non-literary language. The book, written in a clear and accessible style, will be of interest to post-graduate students and academics in linguistics, stylistics, literary studies, psychology and also computational approaches.