Corpus linguistics in literary analysis : Jane Austen and her contemporaries / Bettina Fischer-Starcke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fischer-Starcke, Bettina.

Series:

Corpus and discourse. Studies in corpus and discourse.

Corpus and discourse. Studies in corpus and discourse

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--19th century--Style.

English language.

Women and literature--England--History--19th century.

Women and literature.

Language and languages in literature.

Linguistics--History--19th century.

Linguistics.

Austen, Jane, 1775-1817--Technique.

Austen, Jane.

Austen, Jane, 1775-1817--Language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Corpus Linguistics in Literary Analysis provides a theoretical introduction to corpus stylistics and also demonstrates its application by presenting corpus stylistic analyses of literary texts and corpora. . The first part of the book addresses theoretical issues such as the relationship between subjectivity and objectivity in corpus linguistic analyses, criteria for the evaluation of results from corpus linguistic analyses and also discusses units of meaning in language. The second part of the book takes this theory and applies it to Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen and to two corpora

Contents:

Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 Goals, techniques, principles; 3 Language and meaning; 4 Summary of Northanger Abbey; 5 Keywords and concordance lines; 6 Phraseology; 7 Text segmentation; 8 Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; References; Index of Names; Index of Subjects

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786612821899

9781282821897

128282189X

9781441158833

1441158839

OCLC:

670412121