Corpus stylistics as contextual prosodic theory and subtext / Bill Louw, Marija Milojkovic.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Louw, Bill, author.

Milojkovic, Marija, author.

Series:

Linguistic approaches to literature ; 23.

Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 1569-3112 ; Volume 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semantic prosody.

English language--Discourse analysis--Data processing.

English language--Variation--Data processing.

Thought and thinking--Data processing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (441 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The volume presents Louw's Contextual Prosodic Theory from its beginnings to its newest applications. It journeys from delexicalisation and relexicalisation into Semantic Prosody and then to the heart of its contextual requirements within collocation and the thinking of J.R. Firth. Once there, it moves much of Firth’s and Malinowski’s thinking into a computational method based upon the ability of language to govern and analyse itself using collocation to plot its scope and limits. With the assistance of analytic philosophy, it parts logic (grammar) from metaphysics (vocabulary) along the lines of a non-computational formula of Bertrand Russell, and so falsifies the major premise of the Vienna Circle using its own central tenet: the Principle of Verification. Having arrived at corpus-derived subtext (the semantic aura of grammar strings, as distinguished from Semantic Prosody), the second half of the book proceeds to verify the theory on Slavic languages. The focus is on the poet Alexander Pushkin, whose authorial intention becomes computationally recoverable. Prose is handled on samples authored by David Lodge, where authorial (in)sincerity (Louw 1993) is viewed on a cline of inspiration and quality of discourse. Other applications in the volume include studies on translation, negotiation, humour, and the reception of CPT.

Contents:

Part I: Theoretical considerations from the beginnings to the present day

Chapter 1: Delexicalisation, relexicalisation and classroom application

Chapter 2: collocation, interpretation, and context of situation

Chapter 3: Semantic prosodies, irony, insincerity and literary analysis

Chapter 4: Data-assisted negotiating

Chapter 5: The analysis and creation of humour

Chapter 6: Events in the context of culture, language events, subtext

PART II: New applications

Chapter 7: Alexander Pushkin and authorial intention

Chapter 8: Translating Pushkin: a case in point

Chapter 11 : Contextualprosodic theory in the stylistics classroom

Chapter 12: Student-centred stylistics: does subtext read text?.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.