Author: Beatrix Busse
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190212365
Size: 72.31 MB
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Reference to or quotation from someone's speech, thoughts, or writing is a key component of narrative. These reports further a narrative, make it more interesting, natural, and vivid, ask the reader to engage with it, and reflect historical cultural understandings of modes of discourse presentation. To a large extent, the way we perceive a story depends on the ways it presents discourse, and along with it, speech, writing, and thought. In this book, Beatrix Busse investigates speech, writing, and thought presentation in a corpus of 19th-century narrative fiction including Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Oliver Twist, and many others. At the intersection between corpus linguistics and stylistics, this book develops a new corpus-stylistic approach for systematically analyzing the different narrative strategies of discourse presentation in key pieces of 19th-century narrative fiction. Speech, Writing, and Thought Presentation in 19th-Century Narrative Fiction identifies diachronic patterns as well as unique authorial styles, and places them within their cultural-historical context. It also suggests ways for automatically identifying forms of discourse presentation, and shows that the presentation of characters' minds reflects an ideological as well as an epistemological concern about what cannot be reported, portrayed, or narrated. Through insightful interdisciplinary analysis, Busse demonstrates that discourse presentation fulfills the function of prospection and encapsulation, marks narrative progression, and shapes readers' expectations.
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Author: Jonathan Culpeper
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415137959
Size: 33.32 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 181
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This collection introduces students to the stylistic analysis of drama. Written in an engaging and accessible style, the contributors employ a variety of language analysis techniques.
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Author: Giuseppina Balossi
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027270422
Size: 72.14 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 277
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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.
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Author: Piergiorgio Trevisan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780993172465
Size: 43.81 MB
Format: PDF
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Languages : en
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Author: Ronald Carter
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780415410038
Size: 41.33 MB
Format: PDF
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 306
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The Language and Literature Reader is the first collection in over a decade to address the study of the linguistic foundations and components of literature.
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Author: Jonathan Culpeper
Publisher: Palgrave
ISBN: 1137571853
Size: 17.94 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 776
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What is the English language like, why is it like that and what do we need to know in order to study it? This wide ranging introductory textbook not only presents the English language from multiple perspectives, but provides the reader with the necessary grounding in linguistics to investigate it for themselves.
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Size: 50.68 MB
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Category : Language and languages
Languages : en
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