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Keywords in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels
Hošek, Karolina ; Malá, Markéta (advisor) ; Vašků, Kateřina (referee)
Keyword analysis is a method used in corpus linguistics, in which keywords are generated automatically from the text against the background of a reference corpus serve as the starting point of the analysis of the text. In this thesis, keywords are retrieved from a literary text and analyzed, with a focus on their function as style markers. The theoretical part of this work centers around the description of corpus stylistics, the role of keywords in corpus stylistics and previous findings in the field by other researchers, including linguistic analyses of literary texts. This chapter is complemented by a methodological part which describes the software used in the research and its individual tools. The keyword analysis method is tested by comparing the seven novels of the Harry Potter series to a reference corpus - a subcorpus of the British National Corpus comprising fiction for children and teenage readers. The first one hundred keywords generated using the concordance software AntConc are further divided into subgroups of grammatical and stylistic words, and lexical words, which are listed together with proper nouns. The analyzed keywords illustrate the ways in which the explored text differs from comparable works of children's literature in both lexis and grammar. The concluding part evaluates...

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