Corpus Stylistics and Dickens's Fiction

by Michaela Mahlberg

Book Overview

This book presents an innovative approach to the language of one of the most popular English authors. It illustrates how corpus linguistic methods can be employed to study electronic versions of texts by Charles Dickens. With particular focus on Dickens's novels, the book proposes a way into the Dickensian world that starts from linguistic patterns. The analysis begins with clusters, i.e. repeated sequences of words, as pointers to local textual functions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138900079
• ISBN13: 9781138900073
• Release Date: May 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"