狄更斯小说词汇层面上的计量文体学分析

论文摘要

狄更斯是十九世纪最伟大的小说家之一。他的小说极大地反映了当时社会各阶层的生活以及行为,所以这些小说至今仍经久不衰。他的很多作品——《雾都孤儿》、《远大理想》、《大卫.科普菲尔》、《双城记》等已经拍成电影、舞台剧或是音乐剧,这足以展示了长久以来狄更斯小说的魅力和影响。近年来,运用统计方法对文学进行分析受到学者们的关注。本文试从计量文体学的角度对狄更斯三个时期的小说进行词汇层面上的分析比较。作者建立了三个包含每个时期六部代表性小说的语料库,并且运用FoxPro和SPSS两种软件对这三个时期的小说在词长、词汇丰富度、单词频率分布、和普通词方面进行对比分析。通过对比分析,得出狄更斯三个时期的小说在词汇层面均呈现一定的差异。

论文目录

• 摘要
• ABSTRACT
• Chapter 1 Introduction
• 1.1 Research Background
• 1.1.1 The Victorian Period
• 1.1.2 Dickens' Life and Literary Career
• 1.2 Purpose and Significance of the Study
• 1.3 Layout of the Thesis
• Chapter 2 Literature Review
• 2.1 The Domain of Style
• 2.2 Stylistics
• 2.3 Literary Stylistics and Computational Stylistics
• 2.4 Computational Stylistics
• 2.4.1 The Definition of Computational Stylistics
• 2.4.2 Previous Studies on Style Markers
• Chapter 3 Research Methodology and Data Processing
• 3.1 Brief Introduction to the Corpora Used
• 3.2 Instrument for Data Collecting
• 3.3 Tools for Data Analyzing
• Chapter 4 Data Analysis and Discussion
• 4.1 Word Length
• 4.1.1 Word Length Distribution in the Three Periods
• 4.1.2 Mean Word Length
• 4.2 Word Frequency Distribution-High and Low Frequency Words
• 4.2.1 High Frequency Words
• 4.2.1.1 100 Most Frequent Words in the Three Periods
• 4.2.1.2 The 90 Shared Most Frequent Words Of the Three Periods
• 4.2.2 Low Frequency Words-Hapax Legomena
• 4.3 Analysis of Common Words
• 4.3.1 The Distribution of Parts of Speech in Each Corpus
• 4.3.2 Chi-square Test of the Common Words in the Three Periods
• 4.3.3 Analysis of Adjectives in the Three Periods
• 4.4 Lexical Richness
• 4.4.1 Lexical Variation
• 4.4.1.1 Mean Type-Token Ratio
• 4.4.1.2 TTR of 30 Chunks
• 4.4.1.3 Vocabulary Growth
• 4.4.2 Vocabulary Sophistication
• 4.4.3 Lexical Density
• Chapter 5 Conclusion
• 5.1 Major Findings of the Study
• References
• Appendix
• Acknowledgements
• Resume