语料库文体学_概述.ppt

Corpus Linguistics and Literary Studies Aims and objectives You will be familiar with the scope, rationale and findings of some of the main studies currently carried out in corpus-based literary studies; You will be able to reflect critically on the methodology adopted by corpus-based literary studies; You will be aware of the issues that corpus-based research attempts to address. Stylistics (Wynne, 2006) the study of the language of literature a field of empirical inquiry, in which the insights and techniques of linguistic theory are used to analyze literary texts Corpus stylistics? (Mahlberg, 2007a) Corpus linguistics repetition, norms, the typical Literary stylistics deviations from norms, creative language use “What corpus stylistics can do beyond the obvious provision of quantitative data, is help with the analysis of an individual text by providing various options for the comparison of one text with groups of other texts to identify tendencies, intertextual relationships, or reflections of social and cultural context.” (Mahlberg, 2007a:221) “…individual texts can be explained only against a background of what is normal and expected in general language use, and this is precisely the comparative information that quantitative corpus data can provide. An understanding of the background of the usual and everyday – what happens millions of times – is necessary in order to understand the unique.” (Stubbs, 2005:5) corpus linguistics + literary stylistics = corpus stylistics? (Mahlberg, 2007a) Corpus stylistics is the analysis of literary texts by using corpus linguistic techniques. It combines the analytic techniques of corpus linguistics with the goals of stylistics, that is, it extracts literary meanings from literary texts by using computational means of analysis. Relationship between meaning and form Stylistics: how we say what we say Corpus linguistics: what we