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- Title: Some Stylistic Typological Distances Between the Prose of Some British Writers (Linguistics)
- Author : Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
- Release Date : January 01, 2003
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 262 KB
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ABSTRACT The article describes the frequencies of occurrence of gerund, participle 1 and verbal noun in the prose of some writers to establish the stylistic typological distances between them. The author chose 6 features for the gerund, 1 feature for the verbal noun and 5 features for the participle 1. All in all, there are 12 features to construct typological distances with the help of the "Chi-square" criterion. It is interesting to find out that American writers (Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway) would not form one group, while the British writers (Joan K. Rowling, Agatha Christie and William Somerset Maugham) should form the other group (taxon). It looks that the use of the -ing forms does not depend on the nationality of the writer. Theodore Dreiser has a tendency to use the -ing forms (i.e. the gerund, participle 1 and verbal noun) in his prose in the same way as F. Scott Fitzgerald. This is why, the distance is minimal (24.01). Dreiser's prose is also close to the prose of Christie 1 (47.70). Dreiser's prose by these 12 features is far away from that of Maugham 1 (101.60). Our task is to find out the distances between the authors, but not to explain those distances. However, one can see that the prose of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Agatha Christie might have influenced the prose of Theodore Dreiser. Ernest Hemingway has a tendency to use the gerund in the same functions as Joan. K. Rowling (10.54), participle 1--as William Somerset Maugham in "Flotsam and Jetsam" (14.04) and verbal noun--as Maugham in "The force of circumstance" and "The creative impulse" or as Christie in "Curtain" (0.06). This is the first work of this sort in stylistics and thus, it gives some interesting results concerning the authors discussed in this paper.
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