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A Corpus-Based Study of the Style in Jane Austen’s Novels

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Author	Wijitsopon, Raksangob
Copyright Year	2013
Abstract	While a corpus linguistic technique has been applied to various studies in text and discourse analysis, it has not been much adopted in stylistic analysis of literary texts. The present study, therefore, applies a corpus-driven approach to Jane Austen's six major novels, in order to see how well this new method works with literary texts, compared with what has been observed in previous studies of Jane Austen's language. It has been found that the corpus-driven approach can provide quite a few results that are useful in supporting and refining literary scholars' intuitive observations on the author's works. Some of the linguistic patterns derived from the comparative corpusdriven method have not been remarked on before in any previous studies and hence can serve as new textual evidence in the study of Jane Austen's writing style. Despite such great potential for the study of style in literary works, it is suggested that the analyst's knowledge and understanding of the text(s) under study is 1 This study is sponsored by the TRF-CHE Research Grant for New Scholar and the Ratchadaphiseksomphot Endowment Fund of Chulalongkorn University (RES560530083HS). I would like to express my gratitude to the Thailand Research Fund (TRF), the Commission on Higher Education (CHE), Ministry of Education, and Chulalongkorn University for their support. 2 Assistant Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University crucial in interpreting and evaluating those results because the corpus-driven approach to literary texts relies heavily on quantitative data.
Starting Page	41
Ending Page	64
Page Count	24
File Format	PDF HTM / HTML
DOI	10.1163/26659077-01601003
Volume Number	16
Alternate Webpage(s)	http://www.manusya.journals.chula.ac.th/files/essay/A%20Corpus-based-Raksangob%20p.41-64.pdf
Alternate Webpage(s)	https://doi.org/10.1163/26659077-01601003
Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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