[Corpora-List] Stylistics and corpus linguistics

From: Martin Wynne (martin.wynne@ota.ahds.ac.uk)
Date: Wed May 26 2004 - 16:31:40 MET DST

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    Dear All,

    I have a query about work done on the interface of stylistics and corpus
    linguistics, and would be grateful if anyone could provide any thoughts or
    pointers to work in this area.

    What I am thinking of is principally linguistic studies of literature which
    make use of corpora or corpus linguistics techniques.

    Examples of this would be:
    - studies which have compared a given feature in a literary text with its
    usage in a reference corpus, possibly to identify and/or quantify deviation
    from non-literary norms;
    - adding annotation of linguistic categories in electronic literary texts;
    - construction of corpora of literary texts.

    I am arbitrarily excluding:
    - stylometry and authorship studies
    - literary concordances (which don't do any more than that)
    - linguistic studies of a literary text which happen to have used an
    electronic text or computational techniques, but not a corpus or anything
    normally understood as a corpus linguistic technique.

    Thanks for any pointers.

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    Martin Wynne
    Head of the Oxford Text Archive and
    AHDS Literature, Languages and Linguistics

    Oxford University Computing Services
    13 Banbury Road
    Oxford
    UK - OX2 6NN
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    Fax: +44 1865 273275
    martin.wynne@ota.ahds.ac.uk

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