'The Tranquillity of the Mansion:' Fields and Formulaic Diction in a Gothic Novel.

No study of formulaic language in Gothic fiction is currently available. This article explores the structure of Gothic formulaic discourse in one of the 'Northanger novels,' The Necromancer (1794). Using the corpus-linguistics concept of collocation, as well as insights from the oral-formulaic theor...

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Publicado en:Journal of Language, Literature & Culture Vol. 62; no. 3; pp. 141 - 157
Autor principal: Aguirre, Manuel
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Dec2015
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