2. INTRODUCTION
Analyzing the topic of a text (what it says) and
style of a text (how it says it).
Stylistic analysis is also fundamental to the
recognition of uses of language which discern
one author from another. An author's style is his
signature.
3. COMPUTATIONAL STYLISTICS
Study of patterns formed in particular texts,
authors, genres, periods via computational
methods.
Through the use of computers, it should be
possible to achieve more accurate detection and
explanation of such linguistic patterns.
4. SCOPE OF COMPUTATIONAL STYLISTICS
To find patterns in language that are linked to the
processes of writing and reading.
To find "style" in the wider sense, but which are
not demonstrable without computational
methods.
For example: to examine patterns of association
and difference among Shakespeare’s plays,
based on their spoken dialogue.
5. EXAMPLES OF CORPUS USED FOR
COMPUTATIONAL STYLISTIC
Literary fields:
Literary texts (play, poems, novel, short
stories).
Shakespeare’s works.
Websites.
Blogs.
7. RELEVANCE TO LANGUAGE LEARNING OR
LANGUAGE RESEARCH
To determine the language of literary works.
The language research (literary language).
To reveal differences among many types of
dialogues or the language use.
Language used in a special way; never reflects
everyday speech and may depart from the
grammatical and other norms of speech
Literary language; quite unconscious, direct,
sensitive, requires no reference to non-literary
usage.
8. SYNOPSIS OF STUDY(EMPIRICAL STUDY)
Title: “Now I am alone”
Journal: A corpus stylistic approach to
Shakespearian soliloquies, by Sean Murphy,
Lancaster University.
Research Questions:
Objectives:
1. To show what a corpus stylistic analysis can
reveal about the linguistic nature of soliloquies as
opposed to dialogue in Shakespeare’s plays.
2. To what extent this methodological approach
can highlight distinctions between comedies,
histories and tragedies, and early plays as
opposed to mid-career works.
9. METHODOLOGY
12 Shakespeare’s plays were chosen by the
researcher and soliloquies/aside document and
interactional language were created to document
each play and calculate the percentage of self
talk.
Secondly, Multilingual Corpus Toolkit was used to
uncover further layers of meaning.
And lastly, Wordsmith Tools was used to carry out
concordances on selected findings to determine
frequent collocations.
10. FINDINGS
Self-talk vs. Interactional language-it has been
found that there are overuses of interjections like
“O..”, and the expressions of doubt “with” and
“And yet…”.
Comedic soliloquies-about love and relationships;
tragic heroes contemplate religion and the
supernatural; and historical figures seem to
contemplate themselves.
Soliloquiesers - give implicit stage directions,
reveal future intentions, and generalize.
In terms of topics-soliloquies appear to talk at
great length about anatomy and physiology,
thoughts, colours, love and deception.
11. REFLECTION
Computational Stylistic is useful in
analysing a texts, authors, genres and
periods.
This type of Corpus Linguistic is useful
especially to Language students for they
help students to understand the relations
between texts, author and period.
More research should be done in
particular texts in computational stylistic
to advance language learning.
