A Corpus Linguistic Approach to Literary Language and Characterization: Virginia Woolf's The Waves

Author:   Giuseppina Balossi
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   18
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9789027234070


Pages:   277
Publication Date:   12 June 2014
Format:   Hardback
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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:   Giuseppina Balossi
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   18
Weight:   0.690kg
ISBN:  

9789027234070


ISBN 10:   9027234078
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   12 June 2014
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Acknowledgements; 2. Foreword; 3. List of conventions; 4. List of figures and tables; 5. List of appendixes; 6. List of concordances; 7. 1. Introduction; 8. 2. Virginia Woolf's The Waves; 9. 3. Literature review; 10. 4. Corpus approaches to the study of language and literature; 11. 5. Methodology; 12. 6. Character differentiation through word-classes; 13. 7. Character differentiation: Semantic fields; 14. 8. Conclusion; 15. References; 16. Websites; 17. Appendixes; 18. Author index; 19. Subject index

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