语料库文体学_概述

Suggested reading
• Adolphs, S. and R. Carter. 2002. Point of view and semantic prosodies in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse, Poetica, 7–20. • Culpeper, J. 2009. Keyness: Words, parts-of-speech and semantic categories in the character-talk of Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet'. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 14(1): 29-59. • Louw, B. 1993. Irony in the text or insincerity in the writer? The diagnostic potential of semantic prosodies. In M. Baker, G. Francis and E. TogniniBonelli (eds.) Text and Technology: In Honour of John Sinclair, 157–176. Philadelphia/Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• “…individual texts can be explained only against a background of what is normal and expected in general language use, and this is precisely the comparative information that quantitative corpus data can provide. An understanding of the background of the usual and everyday – what happens millions of times – is necessary in order to understand the unique.” (Stubbs, 2005:5)
• • • • • Word frequency Collocation Word cluster / n-gram Lexical-grammatical pattern / phraseology Semantic prosody
Topic for discussion
• We have looked at three studies: Stubbs (2005), O’Halloran (2007b), and Starcke (2006). Comment on the studies with regard to research targets and the methods adopted.
• Relationship between meaning and form – Stylistics: how we say what we say – Corpus linguistics: what we say depends on form
Research targets of corpus stylistics
corpus linguistics + literary stylistics = corpus stylistics? (Mahlberg, 2007a)
• Corpus stylistics is the analysis of literary texts by using corpus linguistic techniques. It combines the analytic techniques of corpus linguistics with the goals of stylistics, that is, it extracts literary meanings from literary texts by using computational means of analysis.
• Mahlberg, M. 2007a. Corpus stylistics: bridging the gap between linguistic and literary studies. In M. Hoey, M. Mahlberg, M. Stubbs and W. Teubert (eds.) Text, Discourse and Corpora: Theory and Analysis, 219–246. London: Continuum. – 2007b. Clusters, key clusters and local textual functions in Dickens. Corpora, 2, (1), 1–31. • O’Halloran, K.A. 2007a. The subconscious in James Joyce’s “Eveline”: a corpus stylistic analysis which chews on the “Fish hook”’. Language and Literature, 16, (3), 227–244. – 2007b. Corpus-assisted literary evaluation. Corpora, 2, (1), 33–63.
• Toolan, M. 2008. Narrative Progression in the Short Story: First Steps in a Corpus Stylistic Approach. Narrative, (2): 105-120. • Wynne, M. 2006. Stylistics: Corpus Approaches. In K. Brown (ed.) Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics (2nd Ed). Vol.12, 223-226. Oxford: Elsevier. /resources/sigs/corpusstyle/Corpora_stylistics.pdf • 李晋、郎建国，语料库语言学视野中的外国文学 研究，《外国语》，2010/02。
Corpus stylistics? (Mahlberg, 2007a)
• Corpus linguistics – repetition, norms, the typical
• Literary stylistics – deviations from norms, creative language use
• “What corpus stylistics can do beyond the obvious provision of quantitative data, is help with the analysis of an individual text by providing various options for the comparison of one text with groups of other texts to identify tendencies, intertextual relationships, or reflections of social and cultural context.” (Mahlberg, 2007a:221)
Stylistics (Wynne, 2006)
• the study of the language of literature • a field of empirical inquiry, in which the insights and techniques of linguistic theory are used to analyze literary texts
• Short, M., E. Semino and J. Culpeper. 1996. Using a corpus for stylistics research: speech and thought presentation. J. Thomas and M. Short (eds.) Using Corpora for Language Research, 110-131. London: Longman. (外研社2001) • Starcke, B. 2006. The phraseology of Jane Austen's Persuasion: Phraseological units as carriers of meaning. ICAME Journal, 30, 87–104. • Stubbs, M. 2005. Conrad in the computer: examples of quantitative stylistic methods. Language and Literature, 14, (1), 5–24.
Corpus Linguistics and Literary Studies
Hale Waihona Puke Aims and objectives
• You will be familiar with the scope, rationale and findings of some of the main studies currently carried out in corpus-based literary studies; • You will be able to reflect critically on the methodology adopted by corpus-based literary studies; • You will be aware of the issues that corpusbased research attempts to address.