Corpus Stylistics and Dickens's Fiction
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Corpus Stylistics and Dickens's Fiction

  1. 226 pages
  2. English
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Corpus Stylistics and Dickens's Fiction

About this book

This book presents an innovative approach to the language of one of the most popular English authors. It illustrates how corpus linguistic methods can be employed to study electronic versions of texts by Charles Dickens. With particular focus on Dickens's novels, the book proposes a way into the Dickensian world that starts from linguistic patterns. The analysis begins with clusters, i.e. repeated sequences of words, as pointers to local textual functions. Combining quantitative findings with qualitative analyses, the book takes a fresh view on Dickens's techniques of characterisation, the literary presentation of body language and speech in fiction. The approach brings together corpus linguistics, literary stylistics and Dickens criticism. It thus contributes to bridging the gap between linguistic and literary studies and will be a useful resource for both researchers and students of English language and literature.

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Yes, you can access Corpus Stylistics and Dickens's Fiction by Michaela Mahlberg in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Languages & Linguistics & Linguistics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Halftitle
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Tables, Figures, and Concordances
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Introduction
  9. 1 Corpus Stylistics
  10. 2 Textual Building Blocks of Fictional Worlds
  11. 3 Starting with the Texts: Corpora, Clusters, and Lexical Bundles
  12. 4 Groups of Clusters for the Identification of Local Textual Functions
  13. 5 Character Speech
  14. 6 Body Language
  15. 7 As If and the Narrator Comment
  16. 8 Labels: Contextualising and Highlighting Functions
  17. 9 Conclusions and Outlook
  18. Appendices
  19. Notes
  20. References
  21. Index