Corpus Stylistics as Contextual Prosodic Theory and Subtext.

Intro -- Corpus Stylistics as Contextual Prosodic Theory and Subtext -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Part I. Theoretical considerations from the beginnings to the present day -- Delexicalisation, relexicalisation and classroom application -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Lexical Syllabus and progressive delexicalisation -- 1.3 PD profiles and lang-lit integration -- 1.3.1 Preliminaries -- 1.3.2 Concordancing for PD in lang-lit integration -- 1.3.3 An entry point for classroom concordancing of literature -- 1.3.4 The entry point for frequency and its relationship with 'device' -- 1.4 Naturalness and the sentence concordance -- 1.5 Collocation concordance: Some applications -- 1.6 Conclusion -- Collocation, interpretation, and context of situation -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Different theoretical perspectives on collocation -- 2.2.1 Firth -- 2.2.2 Halliday -- 2.2.3 Sinclair -- 2.3 Context of situation -- 2.4 The role of collocation and context of situation in modern interpretation -- 2.5 Restricted languages and the study of poetry -- 2.6 Does the existence of restricted languages imply the need for specialized reference corpora? -- 2.7 Using nonfictional and fictional reference corpora in the study of poetry -- 2.8 Corpus development -- 2.9 Conclusion -- Semantic prosodies, irony, insincerity and literary analysis -- 3.1 Introduction: Are semantic prosodies assailable? -- 3.2 Semantic prosody and elementary scientific proofs -- 3.2.1 Semantic prosodies and their testability -- 3.2.2 Juxtaposing scholarship and knowledge -- 3.3 All literary devices as collocation -- 3.4 Does the way that computers read poetry ever suit the critic? -- 3.5 Counteracting the collocates of the standard language: A case study -- 3.6 Conclusion -- Data-Assisted Negotiating -- 4.1 Introduction.

4.2 The paucity of bottom up approaches -- 4.3 The role of collocation in settling meaning -- 4.4 Enter the institutional corpus -- 4.4.1 Exponents of Huthwaite findings in corpora and in the Sizewell Corpus -- 4.4.2 Exponents of Huthwaite's 'Do's' in the Sizewell Corpus -- 4.5 Conclusion -- The analysis and creation of humour -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.1.1 Humour in nature vs. humour contrived -- 5.2 The logical construction of the world and its propensities for humour -- 5.2.1 Logical space and shared comic potential -- 5.2.2 Ironies of the world's logical construction -- 5.2.3 Relexicalisation made literal -- 5.3 Humour must be resolved or it remains deception -- 5.3.1 Reversing the directionality of laughter: Dark humour laughs 'at', not 'with' -- 5.3.2 Collocation reveals institutional deceptions of long standing -- 5.3.2.1 The case of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission -- 5.3.2.2 The case of fake remedies as institutional conspiracy -- 5.4 Conclusion -- Events in the context of culture, language events, subtext -- 6.1 Events in the context of culture -- 6.2 Language events -- 6.3 Contexts as specific states of affairs rather than as purely specific entities -- 6.4 Introducing subtext -- 6.5 Subtext: Examples -- 6.6 Subtext defined -- 6.7 Subtext and prospection in nonnative academic writing -- 6.8 Conclusion -- Part II: New applications -- Alexander Pushkin and authorial intention -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.1.1 Semantic prosodies in Russian -- 7.1.2 Semantic prosodies in Serbian -- 7.1.3 States of affairs, events, transitions -- 7.1.4 Relexicalisation and literary devices -- 7.2 A prosodic clash in Pushkin -- 7.3 Relexicalisation, authorial attitude, and device -- 7.4 Subtext, relexicalisation and device -- 7.5 Establishing subtext in Russian -- 7.5.1 The target line and the evidence.

7.5.2 Relexicalisation, co-selection and states of affairs in establishing subtext -- 7.5.3 Researching a shorter grammatical string for quasi-propositional variables -- 7.5.4 The implications of the most frequent QPVs in *ась перед -- 7.5.5 Pushkin's use of the verb являлась -- 7.5.6 Establishing the subtext of 'Передо мной явилась ты' ('You appeared before me') -- 7.5.7 Literary device and authorial intention in Pushkin's 'Передо мной явилась ты' ('You appeared -- 7.6 Conclusion -- Translating Pushkin -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Analysing an existing translation -- 8.3 Creating a corpus-based translation -- 8.4 Corpus-based translation versus an existing translation -- 8.5 Conclusion -- Inspiration and Authorial (In)sincerity -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 The cline -- 9.3 Banality, sincerity, inspired sincerity in David Lodge's Thinks and Changing Places -- 9.4 Inspired insincerity in Changing Places -- 9.5 Authorial insincerity, quality and non-quality discourse, and context of situation -- 9.6 Conclusion -- Two case studies of inspired writing -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 A case study: Writing in English -- 10.3 A case study of inspired writing: Serbian -- 10.4 Conclusion -- Contextual Prosodic Theory in the stylistics classroom -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 The first classroom stylistic study -- 11.2.1 Aims -- 11.2.2 Methodology -- 11.2.3 Background and limitations of the study -- 11.2.4 Implications of CPT for lexicography and classroom stylistics -- 11.2.5 Quantitative research -- 11.2.5.1 The learning phase -- 11.2.5.2 The testing phase -- 11.2.5.3 Discussion -- 11.2.6 Qualitative research -- 11.3 Conclusion -- Student-centred stylistics -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Aims -- 12.3 Methodology -- 12.4 Background to the study and its limitations -- 12.5 The testing phase -- 12.5.1 Stanza 1 -- 12.5.2 Stanza 2 -- 12.5.3 Stanza 5.

12.6 Relexicalisation as part of the testing phase -- 12.7 Conclusion to the testing phase -- 12.8 Students' feedback -- 12.9 Conclusion -- References -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Appendix D -- Index.

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