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A Case Study on Some Frequent Concepts in Works of Poetry.
- Source :
- Journal of Research Design & Statistics in Linguistics & Communication Science; 2018, Vol. 5 Issue 1/2, p123-152, 30p
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- This paper looks at a corpus of British and US poetry, uncovering phraseological units which, through their frequency, are indicators of key concepts. Multi-word-units (MWUs) have been discussed extensively with reference to corpus-based research, for example by Sinclair (1996) [2004], Biber and Conrad (1999), or, referred to as formulaicity by Wray (2002); O'Keefe et al. (2007), Greaves and Warren (2010) and Pace-Sigge (2015) describe MWUs preferred in different spoken and written genres. So far, however, there has been very little research in how far MWUs appear in the genre of poetry. A commonly held view is that poetry by definition should not be yielding patterns - it subverts every pattern (linguistically speaking) that it can. Through focus on the main themes surfacing in multiword units, this research looks at usages found in poetic texts in-depth and compares sets of words found with their occurrence patterns in prose literature. Key issues will be highlighted through a number of theme-based case studies, looking at themes of world and sky. Results show that there are common clusters found in poetry and prose corpora: itis depth of usage that marks their divergence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- CORPORA
SYNTAX (Grammar)
LINGUISTICS research
POETRY collections
TERMS & phrases
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 2052417X
- Volume :
- 5
- Issue :
- 1/2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Research Design & Statistics in Linguistics & Communication Science
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 140969343
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1558/jrds.38938