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Corpus stylistics: speech, writing and thought presentation in a corpus of English writing.

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Published
Publication date2004
Place of PublicationLondon
PublisherRoutledge
Number of pages256
ISBN (print)0415286697
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

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.