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Title |
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Software-assisted Systemic Socio-Semantic Stylistics – Appraising tru* in J.M. Coetzee’s Foe - On Verbal Art |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Donna R Miller; University of Bologna; |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Antonella Luporini; University of Bologna; |
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Discipline(s) |
Linguistics |
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Keyword(s) |
appraisal theory;master identities; social stereotypes; Vázquez Montalbán; Spanish crime fiction; Spanish-English translation; Spanish-German translation |
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Subject |
Subject classification |
Systemic Functional Linguistics |
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Description |
Abstract |
This paper reports recent findings in ongoing research into the limits of applying the methods of corpus linguistics (CL) to the analysis of ‘verbal art’ using Hasan’s Systemic Socio-Semantic Stylistics framework (SSS), a knowledge of which will be in part presumed and where possible cross-referenced in the volume. The text investigated is Coetzee’s novel Foe – a post-colonial rewriting of Robinson Crusoe (RC). Focus is on the evaluation of the notion of truth in Foe by means of appraisal systems and identification of appraisers, appraisees/eds, and what Thompson calls the ‘Russian Doll’ dilemma. The comparative word and keywordlists compiled, for both Foe and RC as reference corpus, reveal potentially relevant lexical items, including silence/word/story/tru* (truth/true/truly), subsequently analyzed in concordances for meaningful clause as exchange/interaction patterns and significant textual location. Such bases for comparison entailed carefully developed annotation schemes tested by significant inter-rater reliability. Findings bring us closer to the novel’s Theme, tentatively formulated as the complex and relative connection between silence/words, authorship (in both fiction and history) and veracity. They also show how CL plays a valuable instrumental role in SSS: a means for identifying significant features which, however, call for further ‘armchair’ scrutiny and the vital linking up to the text’s ‘context of creation’. |
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Publisher |
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Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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01-Sep-2018 |
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Peer-reviewed Article |
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PDF |
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Identifier |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/29808 |
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Identifier |
Digital Object Identifier |
10.1558/equinox.29808 |
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Source |
Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) |
Equinox eBooks Publishing; On Verbal Art |
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Language |
English=en |
en |
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Rights |
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Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |