Corpus Stylistics: Speech, Writing and Thought Presentation in a Corpus of English Writing

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ISBN: 9780415286695 | 0415286697
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 8/24/2004

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This book represents a new direction at the interface between the fields of stylistics and corpus linguistics, namely the use of a corpus methodology to investigate the ways in which people's words and thoughts are presented in written narratives. A 260,000 word electronic corpus of late 20th century written texts, including fiction, news reports and (auto)biographies is analysed by the authors, providing a detailed account of new theoretical insights, comparisons between different text types and detailed accounts of individual texts.

List of figures

viii

List of tables

Acknowledgements

1 Introduction: a corpus-based approach to the study of discourse presentation in written narratives

(18)

1.1 Introduction

(3)

1.2 Why a corpus-based approach?

(5)

1.3 The Leech and Short (1981) model

(7)

1.4 Other corpus based approaches to speech, writing and thought presentation

(1)

1.5 The structure of this book

(2)

2 Methodology: the construction and annotation of the corpus

(23)

2.1 The corpus

(7)

2.2 The annotation system

(13)

2.3 Concluding remarks

(3)

3 A revised model of speech, writing and thought presentation

(24)

3.1 New categories and a new presentational scale

(10)

3.2 New sub-categories

(5)

3.3 An overview of speech, writing and thought presentation in the corpus

(7)

3.4 Concluding remarks

(2)

4 Speech presentation in the corpus: a quantitative and qualitative analysis

(32)

4.1 Introduction

(1)

4.2 The speech presentation categories in the corpus

(30)

4.3 Concluding remarks

(2)

5 Writing presentation in the corpus: a quantitative and qualitative analysis

(16)

5.1 Introduction

(1)

5.2 The writing presentation categories in the corpus

(13)

5.3 Concluding remarks

111

(3)

6 Thought presentation in the corpus: a quantitative and qualitative analysis

114

(39)

6.1 Introduction

114

(2)

6.2 The pure thought presentation categories in the corpus

116

(19)

6.3 Inferred thought presentation in the corpus

135

(12)

6.4 Concluding remarks

147

(2)

6.5 An overview of our findings on the major speech, writing and thought presentation categories

149

(4)

7 Specific phenomena in speech, writing and thought presentation

153

(48)

7.1 Quotation phenomena

153

(6)

7.2 Hypothetical speech, writing and thought presentation

159

(12)

7.3 Embedded speech, writing and thought presentation

171

(11)

7.4 Ambiguity in speech, writing and thought presentation

182

(16)

7.5 Concluding remarks

198

(3)

8 Case studies of specific texts from the corpus

201

(21)

8.1 Introduction

201

(1)

8.2 Is the medium the message? The presentation of conversations with the dead in Joyful Voices by Doris Stokes

202

(8)

8.3 Discourse presentation in newspaper reports of a 'PC Bible' story

210

(12)

9 Conclusion

222

(10)

9.1 Our findings and the corpus approach

222

(5)

9.2 Areas where further research is needed

227

(5)

Appendix 1 List of texts sampled

232

(3)

Appendix 2 The SW&TP tagset

235

(2)

Appendix 3 Alphabetical list of reporting verbs for Indirect Speech presentation

237

(2)

Appendix 4 Alphabetical list of reporting verbs for Direct Speech presentation

239

(3)

Appendix 5 Alphabetical list of reporting verbs for Indirect Writing presentation

242

(1)

Appendix 6 Alphabetical list of reporting verbs for Direct Writing presentation

243

(1)

Appendix 7 Alphabetical list of reporting verbs for Direct Thought presentation

244

(1)

Appendix 8 Alphabetical list of reporting verbs for Indirect Thought presentation

245

(1)

Bibliography

246

(5)

Index

251

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Corpus Stylistics: Speech, Writing and Thought Presentation in a Corpus of English Writing

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