A recent definition of style is that it “is a property of texts constituted by an ensemble of formal features which can be observed quantitatively and qualitatively” (Herrmann, van Dalen–Oskam, and Schöch 2015, 16), although how it is conceptualized changes with time, place, and domain. Style has received attention in various fields, such as corpus or computational stylistics, literary studies, literary translation, and stylometry. Given the pivotal role of style in literary texts and the importance of using computer tools in literary studies, many researchers have, in recent decades, explored the style of literary texts by applying computational linguistic techniques (e.g., Fischer-Starcke 2009). Specifically, the style of texts has been investigated using computational linguistic methods such as concordances, keywords, and n-grams (i.e., a sequence of words in size n). Style has also been studied by analyzing the frequency of specific lexical bundles selected by researchers.

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