《紫色》和《他们眼望上苍》的计量文体学分析

发布时间：2023-02-18 17:04

　　Zora Neale Hurston的小说《他们眼望上苍》是美国文学史上第一部以黑人女性为主人公,以描述其努力寻求自我价值为主题的女性主义叙事学的作品,被评论界一致认为是美国黑人女性文学的先驱。受到Hurston的影响,Alice Walker对于反映黑人女性生活这一主题进行了继承和发扬。她的代表作《紫色》讲述了黑人女性如何通过自己的努力,实现自我价值的历程。无论从叙事策略还是故事情节上,《他们眼望上苍》和《紫色》有着极大的相似之处,同时因个人与时代特点等的不同,在语言文体特征上存在差别。以往对于两部作品的研究多侧重于语言特点,叙事策略等文学层面,并且多为基于直觉的主观定性研究。本研究以基于语料库的研究方法,从语言学的计量文体学角度,对《他们眼望上苍》和《紫色》进行定量、定性的分析。为两部文学作品提供量化的分析数据,为文学研究提供新视角。本文通过对两篇小说的段落结构、标点符号、单词长度和句子长度这些语言特征以及运用Biber提出的多维分析方法进行分析和比较,发现两部作品的文体特征既有相同之处,又存在差异。由于小说故事情节差异,在段落结构和句长上,两部作品存在显著性差异,但因为主题相同,...

【文章页数】：67 页

【学位级别】：硕士

【文章目录】：
Acknowledgements
Abstract in English
Abstract in Chinese
Chapter 1 Introduction
    1.1 Research Background
    1.2 Research Motivation and Significance
    1.3 Organization of the Thesis
Chapter 2 Theoretical Framework and Literature Review
    2.1 Stylistics
        2.1.1 Definition of Style
        2.1.2 Definition of Stylistics
        2.1.3 History and Development of Stylistics
    2.2 Stylometry
        2.2.1 Definition of Stylometry
        2.2.2 Development of Stylometry
    2.3 Biber’s Multidimensional Analysis
    2.4 Their Eyes Were Watching God and The Color Purple
        2.4.1 Previous Study on Their Eyes Were Watching God
        2.4.2 Previous Study on The Color Purple
        2.4.3 Previous Comparative Study on Their Eyes Were Watching Godand The Color Purple
Chapter 3 Data Collection and Methodology
    3.1 Text Digitization and Corpus Building
    3.2 Tools Used for Data Analysis
Chapter 4 Data Analysis and Discussion
    4.1 Paragraphing
    4.2 Punctuation
    4.3 Word Length
    4.4 Sentence Length
    4.5 Multidimensional Analysis
        4.5.1 An Introduction of Biber’s Multidimensional Analysis
        4.5.2 Multidimensional analysis of Their Eyes Were Watching Godand The Color Purple
Chapter 5 Conclusions
    5.1 Major Findings
    5.2 Limitations and Suggestions for Further Studies
Bibliography



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