Corpus Stylistics - AAA500170

• Anglický název: Corpus Stylistics
• Zajišťuje: Ústav anglického jazyka a didaktiky (21-UAJD)
• Fakulta: Filozofická fakulta
• Platnost: od 2021
• Semestr: oba
• Body: 0
• E-Kredity: 5
• Rozsah, examinace: 0/2, Z [HT]
• Počet míst: zimní:neurčen / neurčen (neurčen); letní:neurčen / neurčen (neurčen)
• Minimální obsazenost: neomezen
• 4EU+: ne
• Virtuální mobilita / počet míst pro virtuální mobilitu: ne
• Stav předmětu: nevyučován
• Jazyk výuky: angličtina
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Způsob výuky: prezenční
• Další informace: https://dl1.cuni.cz/course/view.php?id=8074
• Poznámka: předmět je možno zapsat mimo plán; povolen pro zápis po webu; předmět lze zapsat v ZS i LS
• Garant: Mgr. Anna Čermáková, Ph.D.
• Záměnnost : AAA500129
• Je záměnnost pro: AAA500129

Anotace

Poslední úprava: PhDr. Gabriela Brůhová, Ph.D. (18.01.2021)

Corpus linguistic approach to language uses software to search through collections of electronic texts, i.e. corpora, to identify various linguistic phenomena that make up patterns upon which generalisations are possible. Corpus stylistics applies tools and methods from corpus linguistics to stylistic research. Corpus stylistics mainly focuses on literary texts, individual or principled collections, for example, texts by one author, or texts from a specific period. It focuses both on more general patterns and meanings that are observable across corpora and more specific patterns and meanings typical in one individual text. In terms of quantitative approaches that corpus stylistics employs, it is in many ways similar to work in digital humanities that is referred to as ‘distant reading’ and also ‘cultural analytics’. These approaches emphasise the gains that we get from looking at texts from “distance”, i.e., in large quantities. For corpus stylistics, it is the relationship and balance between quantitative and qualitative that is central. Therefore, research in corpus stylistics often deals with much smaller “cleaner” data sets, so that the qualitative step in the analysis is more manageable.

In this course you will be introduced to the basic corpus linguistic techniques and methods that are used for the analysis of literary (and non-literary) texts. The aim of the course is to make students understand and appreciate functional interpretation and construction of texts. We will explore how language creates meaning, style and effect.

Students are expected to have an interest in literary texts and both qualitative and quantitative methods of analysis. We will be working with user-friendly software that does not require any programming skills. No prior knowledge of corpus linguistics is required.

The assessment for this module includes active participations during sessions, set reading and other course work, a contribution to the course blog, a short critical/reflective inquiry and a final presentation.


The seminars will be held online via Zoom.

Podmínky zakončení předmětu

Poslední úprava: PhDr. Gabriela Brůhová, Ph.D. (06.01.2021)

The assessment for this module includes active participations during sessions, set reading and other course work, a contribution to the course blog and a final presentation. 

Sylabus

Poslední úprava: PhDr. Gabriela Brůhová, Ph.D. (18.01.2021)

 

Week 1 (18.2.)

Introduction to stylistics & corpus stylistics

Reading:

Mahlberg, M. (2015). Literary Style and Literary Texts. In D. Biber & R. Reppen (Eds), The     Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics, 346-361.

Biber, D.  (2011).  Corpus linguistics and the study of literature:  Back to the future?  Scientific Study of Literature 1, 15–23.

Week 2 (26.2.)

 

Analysing big data literary texts: a wider context

Introduction to the Internet Archive, Project Gutenberg and Voyant

 

Reading:

Underwood, T., Bamman, D. & Lee, S. (2018). The Transformation of Gender in English Language      Fiction. Cultural Analytics Feb. 13, 2018. DOI:10.22148/16.019.

Mandell, L. (2019). Gender and Cultural Analytics: Finding or Making Stereotypes? In M. K. Gold & L. F.        Klein (Eds), Debates in the Digital Humanities, 3-26.

 

Week 3 (5.3.)

Literary corpus

Working with CLiC

 

Reading: Mahlberg, M. (2007). Clusters, key clusters, and local textual functions in Dickens. Corpora 2 (1),      1-31.

 

Week 4 (12.3.)

Working with CLiC

Reading: Ruano, P. (2018). An analysis of Charles Dickens’s gender-based use of speech verbs. Gender            and Language, 12(2), 192–217. https://doi.org/10.1558/genl.31137

 

Week 5 (19.3.)

Keywords

Reading: Culpeper, J. (2009). Keyness: words, parts-of-speech and semantic categories in the character talk       of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 14(1), 29-59.

 

Week 6 (26.3.)

Introduction to AntConc

Reading: O’Halloran, K. (2007). Corpus-assisted literary evaluation. Corpora, 2(1) pp. 33–63.

Week 7 (2.4.)

Easter Break

Week 8 (9.4.)

Reading Week

 

Week 9 (16.4.)

Introduction to LancsBox and Kontext

 

Week 10 (23.4.)

Data visualisations

Gephi

 

Week 11 (30.4.)

 

Problem solving

 

Week 12 (7.5.) & Week 13 (14.5.)

 

Presentations