A corpus-based investigation into key words and key patterns in post-war fiction
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dc.contributor.author | Siepmann, Dirk | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-12-23T15:56:54Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2021-12-23T15:56:54Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0929998X | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://osnascholar.ub.uni-osnabrueck.de/handle/unios/2603 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This study is an exploratory investigation into lexico-grammatical items specific to a large corpus of English-language post-war novels, as compared to corpora of conversation, news and academic English. Its overall aim is threefold: first, to show how the subjective impression of `literariness' arising from fictional works is at least partly based on the statistically significant use of highly specific words and lexico-grammatical configurations; second, to attempt a broad classification of key words and patterns; third, to illustrate the fiction-specific patterns formed by three key words. Analysis proceeded in three steps. First, a key word analysis was performed. In the second step, all two-to-five word strings contained in the English corpus were generated. In the third step, multi-word strings, collocations and colligations associated with three English key words ('thought', `sun' and `jerk') were analysed. Results indicate that post-war fiction is characterized by the dense use of specific sets of key words and key patterns, such as multi-word strings (must have been), phrase frames (like a NP, there was a NP) colligations (PossDet thoughts were on NP), collocations (the strengthening sun) and lexically specific narrative patterns (PossDet thoughts were interrupted when/as time clause). The patterns in question are shown to be interconnected through a complex web of analogical creations. Implications are discussed for theories of literature, lexicology and translation. | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | JOHN BENJAMINS PUBLISHING CO | |
dc.relation.ispartof | FUNCTIONS OF LANGUAGE | |
dc.subject | Language & Linguistics | |
dc.subject | Linguistics | |
dc.title | A corpus-based investigation into key words and key patterns in post-war fiction | |
dc.type | journal article | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1075/fol.22.3.03sie | |
dc.identifier.isi | ISI:000368517000004 | |
dc.description.volume | 22 | |
dc.description.issue | 3 | |
dc.description.startpage | 362 | |
dc.description.endpage | 399 | |
dc.identifier.eissn | 15699765 | |
dc.publisher.place | PO BOX 36224, 1020 ME AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS | |
dcterms.isPartOf.abbreviation | Funct. Lang. | |
crisitem.author.dept | FB 07 - Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft | - |
crisitem.author.deptid | fb07 | - |
crisitem.author.orcid | 0000-0002-3650-1056 | - |
crisitem.author.parentorg | Universität Osnabrück | - |
crisitem.author.netid | SiDi085 | - |
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