A corpus-based approach to mind style.
Fowler's (Linguistics and the novel, Methuen, 1977) original definition of mind style emphasised consistency as a defining feature of the phenomenon, something that is (i) difficult to measure, and (ii) often missed in qualitative analyses. In this paper we investigate how a computational semantic a...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Literary Semantics Vol. 51; no. 1; pp. 1 - 17 |
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