浙江大学肖忠华语料库session 14.pptVIP

Culpeper’s Conclusion (2002: 27) “In some cases, my analysis provided solid evidence for what one might have guessed (e.g. Romeo’s keywords ‘beauty’ and ‘love’) …” “… in others, it revealed what I think would be very difficult to guess but fits well a possible interpretation (e.g. Juliet’s keywords ‘if’ and ‘yet’).” “… keywords analysis also offers a way into analysing function words, such as pronouns, and accounting for their contribution to style and meaning” What should we take note of …? How he was able to come to his conclusions The importance of having the right reference corpus The need to use mark-up (as a means of identifying the different characters) Knowing how to use Wordsmith … To make the different wordlists To make the key word lists Any potential weaknesses … It did not attempt to lemmatize the word forms … so that, for example, ‘loves’ would form part of the word count of ‘love’ (Culpeper 2002: 27) Contractions (e.g. I’ll) would also have been counted separately Key word analysis … makes us focus on ‘statistical deviations from a relative norm, and ignores the significance of relatively infrequent deviations from absolute norms’ (i.e. what your given texts may have in common) ignores one-off occurrences of words Now it’s your turn… Duplicating Culpeper (2002) The Romeo text Download the “Oxford Shakespeare” version of Romeo and Juliet /70/index38.html Local copy available Using tags to separate stage directions from dialogues Did Culpeper do this? Tag words spoken by each character Alternatively, you can use a local version I have prepared Sample of tagged text Exeunt MONTAGUE and LADY. ROMEO. Ben. Good morrow, cousin. \Ben. Rom. Is the day so young? \Rom. Ben. But new struck nine. \Ben. Rom. Ay me! sad hours seem long. Was that my father that went hence so fast? \Rom. Ben. It was. What sadness lengthens Romeo’s hours? \Ben. Rom. Not having that, which having, makes them short. \Rom. Ben. In love? \Ben. Rom. Out— \Rom. Ben. Of love? \Ben. R