Reading and writing as motifs in english and french general fiction
Sorba J, Gonon L, Dyka S, Goossens V (2019)
Publication Type: Book chapter / Article in edited volumes
Publication year: 2019
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Edited Volumes: Phraseology and Style in Subgenres of the Novel: A Synthesis of Corpus and Literary Perspectives
Pages Range: 223-249
ISBN: 978-3-030-23744-8
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-23744-8_8
Abstract
The present contribution proposes a contrastive study of specific phraseology in general literature French and English novels from the 1950s to today. Our methodology is based on data extracted by the Lexicoscope text mining tool consisting of Recurrent Lexico-syntactic Trees (RLTs) whose statistical specificity is based on the analysis of syntactic dependency relationships that link their constituent elements. Studying the discursive realization of these RLTs in both corpora lets us identify recurrent phraseological units (Lexico-Syntactic Constructions or LSCs). We compare eight LSCs built around the verbs lire/read and écrire/write (four in French and four in English), the paradigmatic and syntagmatic variations of their constituents, and their discursive functions to prove that these constructions are in fact motifs.
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APA:
Sorba, J., Gonon, L., Dyka, S., & Goossens, V. (2019). Reading and writing as motifs in english and french general fiction. In Iva Novakova, Dirk Siepmann (Eds.), Phraseology and Style in Subgenres of the Novel: A Synthesis of Corpus and Literary Perspectives. (pp. 223-249). Palgrave Macmillan.
MLA:
Sorba, Julie, et al. "Reading and writing as motifs in english and french general fiction." Phraseology and Style in Subgenres of the Novel: A Synthesis of Corpus and Literary Perspectives. Ed. Iva Novakova, Dirk Siepmann, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. 223-249.
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