Investigating Dickens' style : a collocational analysis / Masahiro Hori.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hori, Masahiro.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Literary style.

Dickens, Charles.

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

English language--19th century--Style.

English language.

Literary style.

Physical Description:

xviii, 251 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Summary:

Investigating Dickens' Style aims to provide new and profound insights into Dickens' language and style through the corpus-based study of collocation. A resource for Dickens' and literary stylistics researchers, the study makes use of the 4.6 million-word Dickens corpus to examine in detail Dickens' linguistic innovation, and offers a nuanced understanding of his use of language to achieve stylistic ends. At the centre of the study is a close analysis of the two narratives in Bleak House, read as a focal point for consideration of Dickens' stylistic development through his whole writing life. This book puts forward a new corpus-driven approach to the study of the language and style of literary texts.

Contents:

1 Theoretical Background 3

1.1 A short history of the study of collocation 3

1.2 Collocations in literary language 7

1.3 Chronological change of collocation 14

1.4 Collocations in Dickens 18

1.5 Definition of collocation 23

1.6 Methods, corpus data and software 26

1.7 Outline of the book 28

Part II Collocation in Dickens

2 Familiar Collocations 33

2.1 Nouns 38

2.2 Adjectives 41

2.3 Adverbs 44

2.4 Semantic prosodies 53

2.5 Colligations 54

3 Creative Collocations 57

3.1 Metaphorical collocations 57

3.2 Transferred collocations 69

3.3 Oxymoronic collocations 77

3.4 Disparate collocations 82

3.5 Unconventional collocations 83

3.6 Modified idiomatic collocations 84

3.7 Parodied collocations 90

3.8 Relexicalized collocations 94

4 Collocations and First-Citations from Dickens in the OED2 on CD-ROM 97

4.1 Findings of the investigation utilizing the OED2 on CD-ROM 98

4.2 Lexical items not regarded as neologisms 101

4.3 Collocations and neologisms 103

Part III Case Study: Collocations in Bleak House

5 Collocations and Narratives 117

5.1 Highest-frequency content-words, their collocations in Bleak House and the Dickens Corpus 117

5.2 Collocations found in Bleak House only 122

5.3 Comparison of collocations between the third-person narrative and Esther's narrative 124

6 Collocations and Characters 171

6.1 Collocations peculiar to characters in their speech 172

6.2 Collocational patterns peculiar to characters in their speech 175

6.3 Collocations peculiar to characters in the non-dialogues 179

6.4 Collocational patterns peculiar to specific characters in the non-dialogues 181

7 Comparative Study of the Mind-Styles of First-Person Narrators in Terms of Collocations 184

7.1 Collocations of little, own and poor 186

7.2 Collocations of my 192

7.3 Some different collocational types 195

8 New Compound Words as Collocations in Bleak House 199.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-228) and indexes.

ISBN:

1403920516

OCLC:

53375203