Corpus stylistics : speech, writing and thought presentation in a corpus of English writing / / Elena Semino and Mick Short

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910450316303321
• Autore: Semino Elena <1964-, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004
• ISBN: 0-203-59997-7; 1-134-44720-5; 1-280-05639-8; 0-203-49407-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (269 p.)
• Collana: Routledge Advances in Corpus Linguistics
• Altri autori (Persone): ShortMick
• Disciplina: 420.1/41/0285
• Soggetti: English language - Discourse analysis - Data processing; English language - Spoken English - Data processing; English language - Variation - Data processing; English language - Style - Data processing; Thought and thinking - Data processing; Narration (Rhetoric) - Data processing; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [246]-250) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 ...