Corpus Stylistics - A Practical Introduction

Corpus Stylistics: Theory and Practice

A theoretical and practical guide to using corpus linguistic techniques in stylistic analysis

Supported by detailed instructions of how to access and use relevant corpus software, this is a user's guide to doing corpus stylistic analysis. For students and researchers in stylistics new to the use of corpus methods and theories, the book presents a 'how-to' guide; for corpus linguists it opens the door to the theories, models and frameworks developed in stylistics that are of value to mainstream corpus linguistics. Eight original case studies demonstrate how to use corpus tools to analyse style in a range of texts, from the contemporary to the historical.

McIntyre and Walker explain how to develop appropriate research questions for corpus stylistic analysis, how to construct and annotate corpora, how to make sense of statistics and how to analyse corpus data. The book provides practical advice on how to manage the transition from quantitative results to qualitative analysis, and explores how theories, models and frameworks from stylistics can be used to enhance the qualitative phase of corpus analysis.

Key features
. Contains detailed instructions of how to access and use three major corpus tools - AntConc, Wmatrix and the BYU Corpus interface - plus other relevant software
. Offers practical advice on constructing and annotating corpora
. Explains how corpus methods and theories can be used in stylistic analysis
. Provides guidance on using stylistic theories, models and frameworks in the rigorous qualitative analysis of corpus data
. Demonstrates the benefits to be gained from corpus-based stylistic analysis through eight original case studies

Dan McIntyre is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Huddersfield.

Brian Walker is a Research Fellow at the University of Huddersfield.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements; Tables; Figures; Boxes

Chapter 1: Combining corpus linguistics and stylistics

1. Introduction 2. What is a corpus? 3. A brief history of corpus linguistics 4. The emergence of corpus stylistics and problems with its definition 5. Style and stylistics 6. Corpus stylistics versus cognitive stylistics 7. Aims of the book 8. Structure of the book

Chapter 2: Using corpora to support qualitative stylistic analysis

1. Introduction 2. Strolling with intent: an exercise in corpus informed stylistics 3. Collocation and semantic prosody 4. Case study: irony in 'Aftermyth of war' 5. Conclusion

Chapter 3: Constructing and annotating corpora

1. Introduction 2. Designing a corpus: representativeness and sampling 3. Building a corpus: collecting and storing data 4. Adding metadata to a corpus: mark-up and annotation 5. Summary: suggested steps to building a corpus 6. Case study: investigating the 2000AD comic strip 'Judge Dredd' 7. Conclusion

Chapter 4: Testing hypotheses and answering research questions

1. Introduction 2. Corpora in stylistics 3. The concept of corpus-based and corpus-driven linguistics 4. The value of intuition 5. Hypotheses 6. Objectives and research questions 7. How big was Dickens's vocabulary? 8. Objectivity in stylistics 9. Case study: Hemingway's authorial style 10. Conclusion

Chapter 5: Making sense of significance

1. Introduction 2. Vocabulary size 3. Keyness 4. Collocation 5. Case study: salience and foregrounding in David Peace's 1974 6. Conclusion

Chapter 6: Cognition, character and corpus stylistics

1. Introduction 2. A cognitive stylistic approach to characterisation 3. Constraints on subtitles 4. Case study: Case study: subtitling and characterisation in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy 5. Conclusion

Chapter 7: Pedagogical corpus stylistics

1. Introduction 2. Stylistics in the L2/FL classroom 3. Using corpora in the classroom 4. Developing corpus activities 5. Case study: from internal deviation to external norms via Adrian Henri's 'Tonight at Noon' 6. Conclusion

Chapter 8: Historical corpus stylistics

1. Introduction 2. Studying style diachronically and synchronically 3. Choosing appropriate corpora and tools 4. Case study: discourse presentation in Early Modern English 5. Case study: Frequencies and functions of modal auxiliary verbs in Early Modern English journalism 6. Conclusion

Chapter 9: Real-world applications for corpus stylistics

1. Introduction 2. The impact of applied stylistics 3. Language Unlocked 4. Wmatrix 5. Case study: corpora and the self-presentational style of the UK Green Party 6. Implications of the research 7. Conclusion

Chapter 10: The scope of corpus stylistics

1. Introduction 2. The problem of definition 3. Corpus linguistics and stylistics: a symbiotic relationship 4. Conclusion

Appendix 1: Corpora for corpus stylistics; Appendix 2: Software for corpus stylistics; References

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Dan McIntyre is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the University of Huddersfield.Brian Walker is a Research Fellow at the University of Huddersfield.

Zusammenfassung

A beginner's guide to the corpus analysis of style in texts

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Dan Mcintyre, Dan Walker Mcintyre, MCINTYRE DAN AND WAL, Brian Walker
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781474413213
• ISBN: 978-1-4744-1321-3
• Seiten: 320
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Informatik, EDV > Informatik