Dickens, the suspended quotation and the corpus

This article presents a computer-assisted approach to the study of character discourse in Dickens. It focuses on the concept of the ‘suspended quotation’ – the interruption of a character’s speech by at least five words of narrator text. After an outline of the concept of the suspended quotation as...

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Main Authors: Mahlberg, Michaela, Smith, Catherine
Format: Article
Published: SAGE Publications 2012
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/3155/