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Interfacing Literary Studies with Corpus Approaches

LI Jin1 LANG Jianguo2

1. College of Foreign LanguagesCapital Normal University
Beijing 100048China 2. School of English LanguageLiterature and Culture
Beijing International Studies UniversityBeijing 100024China

Abstract Corpus approaches to literature have been in practice since the 1980s. Terms such as corpus stylistics
computational stylisticsstylometrystatistical stylistics and quantitative stylistics have been adopted to refer to
related research. The paper aims to clarify the above termsto characterize the features of the development of corpus-
based study of literatureand to demonstrate the significance of integrating corpus approaches into literary studies.
While the earlier stage of such study is characterized by an analysis of the language of literaturethe testing of the
patterns of speech and thought presentations in fictionand the attestation ofintuitiveliterary interpretationsthe
current development of the study is directed at exploring the hidden meaning in a literary text. It is contended that
literary studies can be enriched when scholars make full use of corpus approaches on the basis of a critical reading of
a literary text.
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