Clusters, key clusters and local textual functions in Dickens

The paper argues that corpus linguistics can make useful contributions to the descriptive inventory of literary stylistics. The concept of local textual functions is employed as a descriptive tool for the stylistic analysis of a corpus of texts by Charles Dickens. It is suggested that clusters, i.e....

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Main Author: Mahlberg, Michaela
Format: Article
Published: Edinburgh University Press 2007
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1927/