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Corpus stylistics : speech, writing and thought presentation in a corpus of English writing / Elena Semino and Mick Short.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Semino, Elena, 1964-
- Series:
- Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English language--Discourse analysis--Data processing.
- English language.
- English language--Spoken English--Data processing.
- English language--Variation--Data processing.
- English language--Style--Data processing.
- Thought and thinking--Data processing.
- Thought and thinking.
- Narration (Rhetoric)--Data processing.
- Narration (Rhetoric).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (269 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book combines stylistic analysis with corpus linguistics to present an innovative account of the phenomenon of speech, writing and thought presentation - commonly referred to as 'speech reporting' or 'discourse presentation'. This new account is based on an extensive analysis of a quarter-of-a-million word electronic collection of written narrative texts, including both fiction and non-fiction. The book includes detailed discussions of:The construction of this corpus of late twentieth-century written British narratives taken from fiction, newspaper news reports ...
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction: a corpus-based approach to the study of discourse presentation in written narratives; Methodology: the construction and annotation of the corpus; A revised model of speech, writing and thought presentation; Speech presentation in the corpus: a quantitative and qualitative analysis; Writing presentation in the corpus: a quantitative and qualitative analysis; Thought presentation in the corpus: a quantitative and qualitative analysis; Specific phenomena in speech, writing and thought presentation.
- Case studies of specific texts from the corpus Conclusion; List of texts sampled; The SWTP tagset; Alphabetical list of reporting verbs for Indirect Speech presentation; Alphabetical list of reporting verbs for Direct Speech presentation; Alphabetical list of reporting verbs for Indirect Writing presentation; Alphabetical list of reporting verbs for Direct Writing presentation; Alphabetical list of reporting verbs for Direct Thought presentation; Alphabetical list of reporting verbs for Indirect Thought presentation; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [246]-250) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-44719-1
- 0-203-59997-7
- 1-134-44720-5
- 1-280-05639-8
- 0-203-49407-5
- 9780203494073
- OCLC:
- 437055212
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