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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828247203321

Autore

Fischer-Starcke Bettina

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Continuum, 2010

ISBN

1-282-82189-X

9786612821899

1-4411-5883-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Corpus and discourse. Studies in corpus and discourse

Disciplina

823/.7

Soggetti

English language - 19th century - Style

Women and literature - England - History - 19th century

Language and languages in literature

Linguistics - History - 19th century

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.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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