英语reexploring o. henry’s short storiesa corpusbased pilot study本科论文.doc

Re-exploring?O.?Henry’s?Short?Stories——A Corpus-Based Pilot Study 【摘??要】本文试图采用语料库的方法从文体学视角分析欧?亨利小说集《四百万》。研究揭示，通过语料库软件计算出的总体统计数据，为有关欧?亨利小说广泛认同的文学阐释提供了更为具体的描述基础。在探讨小说场景和基本主题方面，重现序列的搭配及频数信息发现了前人并未关注过的语言学特征。 Abstract：This?article?attempts?to?apply?corpus-based?method?to?a?stylistic?interpretation?of?O.?Henry’s?short?story?collection?The?Four?Million.?It?is?shown?that?the?overall?statistics?computed?by?corpus?software?has?provided?a?more?detailed?descriptive?basis?for?widely?accepted?literary?interpretations?of?his?stories.?In?terms?of?story?settings?and?general?themes,?the?collocation?and?frequency?information?of?recurrent?sequences?can?identify?valuable?linguistic?features?which?literary?critics?seem?not?to?have?noticed.? Key?words：corpus;?O.Henry;?setting;?theme 1.Introduction? Henry?was?called?the?American?Guy?De?Maupassant.?Both?authors?wrote?twist?endings,?but?O.?Henry’s?stories?were?much?more?playful?and?optimistic.?Among?the?former?studies?on?O.Henry’s?short?stories,?there?is?consensus?that?O.Henry’s?works?are?generally?branded?with?such?features?as?surprising?endings,?use?of?coincidence?or?chance?to?create?humor,?ingenious?and?exquisite?layouts,?smile-in-tears?irony?and?so?forth.?Despite?the?detailed?literary?discussion,?little?work?has?been?done?to?reveal?its?linguistic?styles.?Nor?is?there?work?with?quantitative?data?as?convincing?evidence.?In?terms?of?the?established?description?of?his?style,?it?seems?unlikely?that?the?corpus-based?method?can?find?anything?original.?However,?the?stylistic?analysis?in?the?present?paper?aims?to?illustrate?the?value?of?corpus?empirical?method?in?exploring?the?literary?styles.?On?the?one?hand,?statistic?data?help?to?confirm?the?canonical?view?on?O.Henry’s?short?stories;?on?the?other?hand,?stylistics?is?related?to?linguistic?features?of?his?works.? 2.Data?and?Methodology? This?paper?is?devoted?to?investigating?the?linguistic?styles?of?O.Henry’s?works?in?an?empirical?way,?applying?both?quantitative?and?qualitative?methods.