Corpus Linguistics and Literature
http://www.pala.ac.uk/resources/sigs/corpus-style/liverpool2009.html
Deadline for submissions expired 9 January 2009
First call for papers for the pre-conference colloquium Corpus Linguistics and Literature as part of the Corpus Linguistics 2009 conference at the University of Liverpool (conference website: http://www.liv.ac.uk/english/CL2009/).
Workshop organizers: Bettina Fischer-Starcke (Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration) and Martin Wynne (Oxford Text Archive, University of Oxford).
Date of the colloquium: 20 July 2009
Dates of the main conference: 21 to 23 July 2009
Corpus stylistics is the analysis of literary texts by using corpus linguistic techniques. It combines the analytic techniques of corpus linguistics with the goals of stylistics, that is, it extracts literary meanings from literary texts by using computational means of analysis. In recent years, corpus stylistics has become an integral part of corpus linguistics. Studies have been published by, for instance, Louw (1993), Semino and Short (2004), Stubbs (2005), Starcke (2006), Wynne (2006), Mahlberg (2007a, b), O’Halloran (2007a, b) and Fischer-Starcke (forthcoming). There have also been a number of workshops at international linguistic conferences, for instance at Corpus Linguistics 2005, Corpus Linguistics 2007, the PALA conferences in 2006 and 2007 and ISLE 1, and the workshop “Corpus Approaches to the Language of Literature“ in Oxford in 2006. This colloquium is intended to present and discuss approaches to corpus stylistic analyses. It aims at furthering the discussion of what is possible in corpus stylistic research, at discussing current approaches to corpus stylistic analyses and at providing a forum for practitioners of the field to meet and to discuss future directions.
We therefore invite submissions for papers which present the application of corpus linguistic approaches in the analysis of literary texts. Papers will be allocated 30 minutes, including 10 minutes for discussion. Abstracts should be no more than 300 words long and be submitted to b.fischer-starcke@wu-wien.ac.at.
This colloquium is run in cooperation with the Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) and is subject to acceptance by the conference organisers.
Submission deadline for abstracts: 9 January 2009
Notification of acceptance: 30 January 2009
References
- Fischer-Starcke, Bettina (forthcoming), Corpus Linguistics and Literature. Corpus Stylistic Analyses of Literary Works by Jane Austen and her Contemporaries. London: Continuum.
- Louw, B. (1993), ‘Irony in the text or insincerity in the writer? The diagnostic potential of semantic prosodies’, in M. Baker, G. Francis, and E. Tognini-Bonelli (eds), Text and Technology. In Honour of John Sinclair. Philadelphia, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 157–176.
- O’Halloran, K.A (2007a), ‘The subconscious in James Joyce’s “Eveline”: a corpus stylistic analysis which chews on the “Fish hook”’. Language and Literature, 16, (3), 227–244.
- — (2007b), ‘Corpus-assisted literary evaluation’. Corpora, 2, (1), 33–63.
- Mahlberg, M. (2007a), ‘Corpus stylistics: bridging the gap between linguistic and literary studies’, in M. Hoey, M. Mahlberg, M. Stubbs and W. Teubert (eds), Text, Discourse and Corpora. Theory and Analysis. London: Continuum, pp. 219–246.
- — (2007b), ‘Clusters, key clusters and local textual functions in Dickens’. Corpora, 2, (1), 1–31.
- Semino, E. and Short, M. (2004), Corpus Stylistics: Speech, Writing and Thought Presentation in a Corpus of English Narratives. 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 stylistic methods’. Language and Literature, 14, (1), 5–24.
- Wynne, Martin (2006), ‘Stylistics: Corpus Approaches’, in: Keith Brown, (Editor-in-Chief), Encyclopedia of Language & Linguistics. Second Edition, volume 12, Oxford: Elsevier, pp. 223-226. http://www.pala.ac.uk/resources/sigs/corpus-style/Corpora_stylistics.pdf