Another Perspective on Vocabulary Richness

This article examines the usefulness ofvocabulary richness for authorship attributionand tests the assumption that appropriatemeasures of vocabulary richness can capture anauthor's distinctive style or identity. Afterbriefly discussing perceived and actualvocabulary richness, I show that doubling andcombining texts affects some measures incomputationally predictable but conceptuallysurprising ways. I discuss some theoretical andempirical problems with some measures anddevelop simple methods to test how wellvocabulary richness distinguishes texts bydifferent authors. These methods show thatvocabulary richness is ineffective for largegroups of texts because of the extremevariability within and among them. I concludethat vocabulary richness is of marginal valuein stylistic and authorship studies because thebasic assumption that it constitutes awordprint for authors is false.     

Have it your way and mine: The theory of styles

Olsen is right to note what can be done with a good theory and the right machine. His particular theory, however, is not transferable to literary studies. If we need a new model, I would suggest that cognitive science can provide a few interesting ones. I have begun to do some work based on David Marr's VISION, in which he hypothesizes two levels of processing within the visual module. My speculation has been on the parallel existence of distinguishable levels of conceptual or language organization which would correspond to the viewer and object centered perspectives Marr describes for vision. I propose to explore the possibility that we may find here the model for the existence of stylistic individualism within overarching historical stylistic generalizations, and even more, that this may be what feminists are searching for when they try to resist being coopted by the masculine language of objectivity. Ellen Spolsky teaches English literature and literary theory and is the Director of the Lechter Institute for Literary Research at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Her latest book is Gaps in Nature: Literary Interpretation and the Modular Mind(SUNY Press, 1993).     

文体学理论在新闻英语听力教学中的应用

文体学理论已经被广泛运用于大学英语教学中,对改进大学英语教学起到了很大的作用。但是,将其与听力教学相结合的研究尚不多。尝试将文体学理论和新闻英语听力教学相结合,通过分析新闻英语的文体特征,从新闻英语的语音、词汇、句法、篇章特征提出相应的教学策略,帮助学生更有效地提高新闻英语的听力。     

小说艺术的自由王国评《天伦之爱》的叙事策略

《天伦之爱》显示了作家鲁迪.威伯在运用叙事策略方面的卓越才能。作品通过自由式的多角度叙事,多种文体融合杂糅,叙事者的自我表现代替了有限视角的印象记录,叙事者的风格化介入代替了叙事者的隐蔽,多层次地展示出人物性格,增强了故事的真实感,也突出了主题,增强了艺术感染力。     

Progress in stylistics: Theory, statistics, computers

This paper attempts to assess the progress made in computational stylistics dyring the course of the past twenty-five years. First, we discuss some theoretical notions of style, and then we sketch certain trends that emerge from relevant articles appearing in a variety of publications including conference proceedings and academic journals (other than CHum). The conclusion is that progress has been mixed.Louis T. Milic is professor emeritus of English at Cleveland State University and secretary-treasurer of the Dictionary Society of North America. He has been active in quantitative stylistics since the 1960s and has recently completed work on the second of two period corpora, the Century of Prose Corpus.     

A procedure to determine authorship using pairs of consecutive words: More evidence for Wilkins's participation in Pericles

A method is analysed and developed in which specific consecutive pairs of words (i.e. collocations) are deduced in order to distinguish between the works of different authors. The approach is designed for use in conjunction with two earlier proposals which are based, respectively, on the first word in every speech and on all the remaining words spoken on stage. Treating two plays of known authorship as anonymous, the new approach to collocations is found to assign each correctly from a group of five dramatists. For further verification, the technique is applied to Acts III, IV and V of Pericles. In accordance with literary scholarship, Shakespeare is selected as the author from a group of seven contemporaneous playwrights. Tests based on collocations show that Wilkins is more likely than either Chapman or the mature Shakespeare to have been the (main) writer of Acts I and II of Pericles, thus confirming the result obtained from both previous studies. Wilfrid Smith has a Ph.D. in Control Theory. He is a Fellow of the British Institute of Mathematics and its Applications and is at present a reader in the University of Ulster. His work is in the field of authorship of early English plays and has been recognized by an entry in the ninth edition of who's Who in the World.     

基于聚类和分类的金庸与古龙小说风格分析

该文以金庸与古龙的小说作为语料,从计算风格学的角度考察二人的风格差异。对比了两人小说的文本从众性、句子破碎度,同时,使用文本聚类的方法对词和词类的N元文法,标点符号的N元文法以及多种特征的总体情况进行了考察,还使用主成分分析和文本分类对八种特征从总体上进行了比较,结果证实金庸与古龙小说风格存在较大差异:金庸小说从众性大于古龙,较多使用俚语方言,口语性更强,同时在语法结构、短语结构、文本节奏以及文本可读性和语言变化程度上也有较大的差异。
     

报道语体内部的分支语体对比研究

近年来,随着媒体市场化的进程,各媒体纷纷进行改革,新闻报道生活化、娱乐化的特点也日趋明显,新闻报道语言也因此产生了多样性的变化。在这样的趋势下,新闻报道内容、题材的不同使报道语体出现了分支语体,即软新闻报道语体和硬新闻报道语体。通过统计、分析报道这两个分支语体的特点,从语体的角度、软新闻报道语体的特点出发,可窥视出当今大众传媒的发展态势。     

英语电子语体：书面语还是口语

总结归纳了英语电子语体在词汇、句法及标点使用等方面的主要特点,并在此基础上分析了其形成的原因,认为英语电子语体是一种更接近于口语体的独特的语体形式。