A Corpus Linguistic Approach to Literary Language and Characterization

This book focusses on computer methodologies as a way of investigating language and character in literary texts. Both theoretical and practical, it surveys investigations into characterization in literary linguistics and personality in social psychology, before carrying out a computational analysis of Virginia Woolf’s experimental novel The Waves . Frequencies of grammatical and semantic categories in the language of the six speaking characters are analyzed using Wmatrix software developed by UC