The term corpus stylistics, usually regarded as a near-synonym for stylometry, stylometrics, statistical stylistics, or stylogenetics, is closely related to statistics and corpus linguistics. Despite an increasing number of studies in the field, people still do not attain a clear line of demarcation between corpus linguistics and corpus stylistics. Corpus linguists are typically concerned with “repeated occurrences, generalizations and the description of typical patterns,” while corpus stylistic studies relate to “deviations from linguistic norms that account for the artistic effects of a particular text” (Mahlberg, “Corpus Stylistic Perspective” 19). However, more needs to be known about what new perspectives corpus linguistics can offer to the depiction of stylistic devices and the interpretation of stylistic values. Under these circumstances, Bill Louw and Marija Milojkovic's Corpus Stylistics as Contextual Prosodic Theory and Subtext is instructive and worthy of reading, for it offers valuable perspectives for interdisciplinary investigations. This volume...
Corpus Stylistics as Contextual Prosodic Theory and Subtext
FENG (ROBIN) WANG is a joint PhD student of Tongji University, China, and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, under the supervision of Professor Delu Zhang and Professor Philippe Humblé. He is also the editor of Chinese Language, Literature & Culture. His recent research interests include corpus-based translation studies, functional stylistics, and translation stylistics. His publications have appeared in Language Education, Foreign Language Learning Theory and Practice, and Journal of Xi'an International Studies University.
PHILIPPE HUMBLÉ (1955) studied Romance Philology at the KULeuven and holds a doctoral degree in bilingual lexicography (Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina/University of Birmingham). For twenty-five years, he taught Spanish language and literature, bilingual lexicography, and the use of corpora at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil). Since 2009, he teaches Spanish translation and Intercultural Communication at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. He has published on translation studies, corpora studies, and intercultural relations in translation.
Feng (Robin) Wang, Philippe Humblé; Corpus Stylistics as Contextual Prosodic Theory and Subtext. Style 1 December 2017; 51 (4): 550–555. doi: https://doi.org/10.5325/style.51.4.0550
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