References: ‘Corpus linguistics and stylistics’

Compiled in 2006 by Michaela Mahlberg and Martin Wynne to accompany the workshops Corpus approaches to the Language of Literature.

Adolphs, S. & R. Carter. 2002. “Point of view and semantic prosodies in Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse”. Poetica, 58, 7-20.

Burrows, J. F. 1987. Computation into criticism. A study of Jane Austen’s novels and an experiment in method. Oxford: Clarendon.

Carter, R. 2004. Language and creativity. The art of common talk. London: Routledge.

Conrad, S. & Biber, D. 2005. "The Frequency and Use of Lexical Bundles in Conversation and Academic Prose". In W. Teubert & M. Mahlberg (eds.) The corpus approach to lexicography, Thematischer Teil von Lexicographica. Internationales Jahrbuch für Lexicographie, 20, 2004, 56-71.

Culpeper, J. 2002. “Computers, language and characterisation: An analysis of six characters in Romeo and Juliet”. In U. Melander-Marttala, C. Östman, M. Kytö (eds.), Conversation in Life and in Literature, Uppsala: Universitetstryckeriet, 11-30.

Fish, S. (1996). 'What is stylistics and why are they saying such terrible things about it?, in J. J. Weber (ed.) The Stylistics Reader. London: Arnold. 94-116. [Originally published 1973]

Hori, M. 2004. Investigating Dickens' Style. A collocational Analysis. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Hoover, D. 2001. “Statistical stylistics and authorship attribution: an empirical investigation”. Literary and Linguistic Computing, Vol. 16, 421-44.

Leech, G. N. & Short M. H. (1981). Style in fiction: a linguistic introduction to English fictional prose. London: Longman.

Louw, W. (1993). 'Irony in the text or insincerity in the writer? The diagnostic potential of semantic prosodies' in Baker, M., Francis, G. & Tognini-Bonelli, E. (eds.). Text and technology. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 157-176. [Reprinted in Sampson, G. and McCarthy, D. (eds.) (2004). Corpus linguistics: readings in a widening discipline. London: Continuum. 229-241.]

Louw, B. 1997. “The role of corpora in critical literary appreciation”. In A. Wichman, S. Fligelstone, T. McEnery, G. Knowles (eds.), Teaching and Language Corpora. Addison Wesley Longman: Harlow, 240-251.

Mahlberg, M. 2007. “Review of M. Hori. 2004. Investigating Dickens’ Style: A Collocational Analysis.” Language and Literature, in press.

Mahlberg, M. 2007 “Corpus stylistics: bridging the gap between linguistic and literary studies”, in Hoey, M., Mahlberg, M., Stubbs, M., Teubert, W. Text, discourse and corpora. London: Continuum.

Mahlberg, M. forthcoming. “Corpora and translation studies: textual functions of lexis in Bleak House and in a translation of the novel into German”. In M. Gatto & G. Todisco (eds.) Translation. The State of the Art/ La Traduzione. Lo stato dell'arte, Longo, Ravenna.

Partington, A. 1995. "Kicking the habit: the exploitation of collocation in literature and humour". In J. Payne (ed.) Linguistic Approaches to literature, English Language research Journal 17. Birmingham: University of Birmingham, 35-44.

van Peer, W. (1989). ‘Quantitative studies of style: a critique and an outlook’, Computers and the Humanities 23, 301-307.

Römer, Ute (2006). ‘Where the Computer Meets Language, Literature, and Pedagogy: Corpus Analysis in English Studies’. In A. Gerbig, & A. Müller-Wood (eds.). How Globalization Affects the Teaching of English: Studying Culture Through Texts. Lampeter: E. Mellen Press, 81-109.

Scott, M. & C. Tribble. 2006. Textual Patterns. Key words and corpus analysis in language education. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Semino, E. & M. Short. 2004. Corpus Stylistics. Speech, writing and thought presentation in a corpus of English writing. London: Routledge.

Short, M. H. (1996). Exploring the language of poems, plays, and prose. London: Longman.

Sinclair, J. (1987). ‘The nature of the evidence’ in Sinclair, J. (ed.) Looking up. Glasgow: Collins, 150-159.

Sinclair, J. 2004. Trust the Text. Language, corpus and discourse. London: Routledge.

Starcke, B. 2006. “The phraseology of Jane Austen’s Persuasion: phraseological units as carriers of meaning”. ICAME Journal, 30, 87-104.

Stubbs, M. 2005. “Conrad in the computer: examples of quantitative stylistics methods”, Language and Literature, 14 (1), 5-24.

Wynne, M., Short, M. & Semino, E. (1998). 'A corpus-based investigation of speech, thought and writing presentation in English narrative texts', in Explorations in Corpus Linguistics, edited by Antoinette Renouf. Amsterdam: Rodopi.

Wynne, M., editor (2005). Developing Linguistic Corpora: a guide to good practice. Oxford: Oxbow Books. [Full text available free online at http://www.ahds.ac.uk/linguistic-corpora/.]

Wynne, M. (2006). 'Stylistics and Language Corpora', in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition, edited by Keith Brown. Oxford: Elsevier.