Recent years have seen substantial advances in ‘corpus stylistics’, which is the use of corpora and computational techniques to study literary style. Corpus stylistics has produced analyses of otherwise imperceptible features of literary style. However, studies in corpus stylistics have rarely considered the full set of core linguistic features. The present study explores literary style through the application of Multi-Dimensional analysis. Stylistic variation along three dimensions is accounted for using a large, principled corpus of fiction. The dimensions of variation are interpreted as ‘Thought Presentation versus Description’, ‘Abstract Exposition versus Concrete Action’, and ‘Dialogue versus Narrative’. These three dimensions are then used to compare the styles of nineteenth-century fiction between authors, and the range of stylistic variation among the novels of individual authors. The findings are interpreted qualitatively and with reference to previous analyses of author style.
Fanego, Teresa, Paula Rodríguez-Puente, María José López-Couso, Belén Méndez-Naya, Paloma Núñez-Pertejo, Cristina Blanco-García & Iván Tamaredo
2017. The Corpus of Historical English Law Reports 1535–1999 (CHELAR): A resource for analysing the development of English legal discourse. ICAME Journal 41:1 ► pp. 53 ff.
Gast, Volker, Christian Wehmeier & Dirk Vanderbeke
2023. A Register-Based Study of Interior Monologue in James Joyce’s Ulysses. Literature 3:1 ► pp. 42 ff.
Goulart, Larissa & Margaret Wood
2021. Methodological synthesis of research using multi-dimensional analysis. Journal of Research Design and Statistics in Linguistics and Communication Science 6:2
2013. Interview with Douglas Biber. Journal of English Linguistics 41:4 ► pp. 359 ff.
Herrmann, J. Berenike
2022. Operationalisierung der Metapher zur quantifizierenden Untersuchung deutschsprachiger literarischer Texte im Übergang vom Realismus zur Moderne. In Digitale Literaturwissenschaft [Germanistische Symposien, ], ► pp. 629 ff.
McIntyre, Dan
2013. The year’s work in stylistics 2012. Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics 22:4 ► pp. 333 ff.
Wang, Shuang & Dipima Buragohain
2023. A multi-dimensional analysis of CBEC English genre variation in South Asia: Based on Daraz. PLOS ONE 18:4 ► pp. e0279716 ff.
2023. A Corpus-Based Analysis of Lexical Bundles with Three Words in Little Women. Modern Linguistics 11:07 ► pp. 2981 ff.
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