Re-exploring O. Henry’s Short Stories——A Corpus-Based Pilot Study 英语论文

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1、Re-exploringO.Henry’sShortStories——ACorpus-BasedPilotStudy【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。【关键词】语料库；欧•亨利；场景；主题Abstract：Thisarticleattemptstoapplycorpus-basedmethodtoastylisticinte

2、rpretationofO.Henry’sshortstorycollectionTheFourMillion.Itisshownthattheoverallstatisticscomputedbycorpussoftwarehasprovidedamoredetaileddescriptivebasisforwidelyacceptedliteraryinterpretationsofhisstories.Intermsofstorysettingsandgeneralthemes,thecollocationandfrequencyinformation

3、ofrecurrentsequencescanidentifyvaluablelinguisticfeatureswhichliterarycriticsseemnottohavenoticed.Keywords：corpus;O.Henry;setting;theme1.IntroductionO.HenrywascalledtheAmericanGuyDeMaupassant.Bothauthorswrotetwistendings,butO.Henry’sstoriesweremuchmoreplayfulandoptimistic.Amongthef

4、ormerstudiesonO.Henry’sshortstories,thereisconsensusthatO.Henry’sworksaregenerallybrandedwithsuchfeaturesassurprisingendings,useofcoincidenceorchancetocreatehumor,ingeniousandexquisitelayouts,smile-in-tearsironyandsoforth.Despitethedetailedliterarydiscussion,littleworkhasbeendoneto

5、revealitslinguisticstyles.Noristhereworkwithquantitativedataasconvincingevidence.Intermsoftheestablisheddescriptionofhisstyle,itseemsunlikelythatthecorpus-basedmethodcanfindanythingoriginal.However,thestylisticanalysisinthepresentpaperaimstoillustratethevalueofcorpusempiricalmethod

6、inexploringtheliterarystyles.Ontheonehand,statisticdatahelptoconfirmthecanonicalviewonO.Henry’sshortstories;ontheotherhand,stylisticsisrelatedtolinguisticfeaturesofhisworks.2.DataandMethodologyThispaperisdevotedtoinvestigatingthelinguisticstylesofO.Henry’sworksinanempiricalway,appl

7、yingbothquantitativeandqualitativemethods.Thestudyadoptstwocorpora.OneisO.Henry’sbookTheFourMillion(acollectionofstories),publishedin1906,containsaseriesofshortstorieswhichtookplaceintheNewYorkCityintheearlyyearsofthe20thcentury.Thecomputerreadableversionsavailableontheinternetareu

8、sedtosetupaminorworkingcor