Phraseology and Style in Subgenres of the Novel: A Synthesis of Corpus and Literary Perspectives

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This edited book represents the first cohesive attempt to describe the literary genres of late-twentieth-century fiction in terms of lexico-grammatical patterns. Drawing on the PhraseoRom international project on the phraseology of contemporary novels, the contributed chapters combine literary studies with corpus linguistics to analyse fantasy, romance, crime, historical and science fiction in French and English. The authors offer new insights into long-standing debates on genre distinction and the hybridization of genres by deploying a new, interdisciplinary methodology. Sitting at the intersection of literature and linguistics, with a firm grounding in the digital humanities, this book will be of particular relevance to literary scholars, corpus stylists, contrastivists and lexicologists, as well as general readers with an interest in twentieth-century genre fiction. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxiv Literary Style, Corpus Stylistic, and Lexico-Grammatical Narrative Patterns: Toward the Concept of Literary Motifs (Iva Novakova, Dirk Siepmann)....Pages 1-15 The Notion of Motif Where Disciplines Intersect: Folkloristics, Narrativity, Bioinformatics, Automatic Text Processing and Linguistics (Dominique Legallois, Stefan Koch)....Pages 17-46 Key Adverbs and Adverbial Motifs in English Fiction and their French Functional Equivalents (Iva Novakova, Dirk Siepmann, Marion Gymnich)....Pages 47-81 Speech Verbs in French and English Novels (Sascha Diwersy, Laetitia Gonon, Vannina Goossens, Marion Gymnich, Agnès Tutin)....Pages 83-113 Alcohol and Tobacco Consumption in English and French Novels Since the 1950s: A Corpus-Stylistic Analysis (Francis Grossmann, Marion Gymnich, Dirk Siepmann)....Pages 115-150 French and American Science Fiction During the Nineties: A Contrastive Study of Fiction Words and Phraseology (Laetitia Gonon, Olivier Kraif)....Pages 151-188 Science Fiction versus Fantasy: A Semantic Categorization and its Contribution to Distinguishing Two Literary Genres (Vannina Goossens, Clémence Jacquot, Susanne Dyka)....Pages 189-221 Reading and Writing as Motifs in English and French General Fiction (Julie Sorba, Laetitia Gonon, Susanne Dyka, Vannina Goossens)....Pages 223-249 Dans un état de NP and in a state of NP: Bridging the Syntagmatic Gap in English and French Fiction (Susanne Dyka, Ludwig Fesenmeier, Marion Gymnich)....Pages 251-278 Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach for Differentiating Contemporary Fiction Subgenres (Iva Novakova, Dirk Siepmann)....Pages 279-285 Back Matter ....Pages 287-298