Statistical Study of Literary Vocabulary

Originally published in 1944, this book examines the controversy surrounding the authorship of De Imitatione Christi.

List of contents

Preface; 1. Introductory, personal and apologetic; 2. The word-distribution: illustrations; 3. Theory of the word-distribution, with an exordium on sampling: the characteristic; 4. The characteristic of K: practical problems; 5. Certain difficulties and sources of fallacy; 6. Word-distributions from the different works of the same author; 7. The distribution of the vocabulary over samples from several works of the same author: vocabulary ratios of Bunyan and Macaulay; 8. The alphabetical distribution of English vocabulary: etymological analysis of the Bunyan and Macaulay data; 9. The De imitatione Christi, Thomas à Kempis and Gerson; 10. The De imitatione Christi, Thomas à Kempis and Gerson, continued; 11. Valedictory; Table of characteristics for nouns and chart; Appendices. Nouns in the samples grouped according to the numbers of occurrences; Index.

Summary

Originally published in 1944, this book examines the controversy surrounding the authorship of De Imitatione Christi, a text generally attributed to Thomas à Kempis. The text presents a statistical analysis of the vocabulary used in De Imitatione Christi, comparing it to different works written by Thomas and works by other authors.

Product details

• Authors: C. Udny Yule, Yule C. Udny
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.05.2014
• EAN: 9781107633711
• ISBN: 978-1-107-63371-1
• No. of pages: 318
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General, Literary studies: general, Probability & statistics, Probability and statistics