LEADER 05696oam 2200757I 450 001 9910786189503321 005 20230803025057.0 010 $a1-135-12358-6 010 $a1-283-97270-0 010 $a0-203-07608-7 010 $a1-135-12359-4 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203076088 035 $a(CKB)2670000000325563 035 $a(EBL)1114657 035 $a(OCoLC)827208967 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000821747 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11441958 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000821747 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10871987 035 $a(PQKB)11321650 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1114657 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1114657 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10650241 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL428520 035 $a(OCoLC)826652835 035 $a(OCoLC)1014198350 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB133402 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000325563 100 $a20180706d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCorpus stylistics and Dickens's fiction /$fMichaela Mahlberg 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (237 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge advances in corpus linguistics ;$v14 225 0$aRoutledge advances in corpus linguistics ;$v14 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-138-90007-9 311 $a0-415-80014-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Corpus Stylistics and Dickens's Fiction; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables, Figures, and Concordances; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Corpus Stylistics; INTRODUCTION; 1.1 SHARED GROUND AND INNOVATION; 1.1.1 Foregrounding theory and corpus norms; 1.1.2 The philological and the corpus stylistic circle; 1.1.3 The stylistician's toolkit and units of description; 1.2 EXAMPLES OF CORPUS STYLISTIC WORK; 1.3 ENTERING THE CORPUS STYLISTIC CIRCLE FOR THE STUDY OF DICKENS'S FICTION; CONCLUSIONS; 2 Textual Building Blocks of Fictional Worlds; INTRODUCTION 327 $a2.1 MEMORABLE CHARACTERS IN THE DICKENSIAN WORLD2.2 CHARACTERISATION AND TEXT WORLDS; 2.3 INDUCTION AND ABSTRACTION IN THE CORPUS STYLISTIC CIRCLE; 2.4 A TEXT-DRIVEN APPROACH TO TEXTUAL BUILDING BLOCKS OF FICTIONAL WORLDS; CONCLUSIONS; 3 Starting with the Texts: Corpora, Clusters, and Lexical Bundles; INTRODUCTION; 3.1 TEXTS AND CORPORA; 3.2 DEFINING AND RETRIEVING CLUSTERS-INITIAL EXAMPLES; 3.3 APPROACHES TO CLUSTERS AND FUNCTIONAL INTERPRETATIONS; 3.4 LEXICAL BUNDLES OR CLUSTERS FOR THE STUDY OF DICKENS'S FICTION?; 3.4.1 Lexical bundles in fiction; 3.4.2 Increasing the length of clusters 327 $aCONCLUSIONS4 Groups of Clusters for the Identification of Local Textual Functions; INTRODUCTION; 4.1 QUANTIFYING, COMPARING, AND CLASSIFYING CLUSTERS; 4.2 KEY CLUSTERS AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF CLUSTERS ACROSS TEXTS; 4.3 AN OPERATIONAL DEFINITION OF CLUSTER GROUPS; 4.4 DISTRIBUTIONS OF CLUSTER GROUPS; 4.4.1 Cluster categories in DCorp; 4.4.2 Cluster categories in 19C; 4.5 'KEY GROUPS' OF CLUSTERS; CONCLUSIONS; 5 Character Speech; INTRODUCTION; 5.1 FUNCTIONS OF SPEECH CLUSTERS; 5.1.1 Negotiating information; 5.1.2 Turn-taking; 5.1.3 Politeness formulae; 5.1.4 First-person narration 327 $a5.1.5 Contextualising and highlighting functions5.2 PHRASAL IMPOLITENESS AND CONFRONTATION; 5.3 FUNCTIONS IN CONTEXT: PICKWICKIAN CLASHES AND CONFRONTATION IN OLIVER TWIST; 5.4 VAGUE LANGUAGE AND OTHER EXAMPLES OF INTERPERSONAL MEANINGS; CONCLUSIONS; 6 Body Language; INTRODUCTION; 6.1 KORTE'S (1997) FRAMEWORK FOR THE ANALYSIS OF BODY LANGUAGE; 6.2 BODY LANGUAGE AND CHARACTERISATION; 6.3 FROM BODY PART CLUSTERS TO BODY LANGUAGE; 6.4 THE BODY LANGUAGE CLINE; 6.4.1 The 'fireplace pose'; 6.4.2 Gaze behaviour: eyes; 6.4.3 Touch behaviour and authentication: his hand upon his shoulder 327 $a6.4.4 Empty body language?6.4.5 Body language functioning as labels and thematic cues; CONCLUSIONS; 7 As If and the Narrator Comment; INTRODUCTION; 7.1 CLUSTERS AND FANCIFUL MEANINGS; 7.2 COLLOCATES AND PATTERNS OF NARRATOR COMMENTS; 7.2.1 Action verbs, body part nouns, and settings; 7.2.2 Manner; 7.2.3 LOOK; 7.2.4 SPEAK; 7.2.5 Significant collocates-Extending the meaning groups; 7.3 LEXICALLY DRIVEN DESCRIPTIONS OF BODY LANGUAGE; CONCLUSIONS; 8 Labels: Contextualising and Highlighting Functions; INTRODUCTION; 8.1 GROUPS OF LABELS AND THEIR FUNCTIONS; 8.1.1 Reporting Speech Labels 327 $a8.1.2 Speech Labels 330 $aThis book presents an innovative approach to the language of one of the most popular English authors. 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