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Linguistic Differences, Differences in Mindstyle: Corpus Analysis of William Faulkner's Novel As I Lay Dying
Kubánek, Cyril ; Ulmanová, Hana (advisor) ; Gráf, Tomáš (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to show that the processing of the language of individual characters in William Faulkner's novel "As I Lay Dying" using the methods of corpus linguistics can lead to valuable findings applicable in literary research. The first result is the confirmation based on exact methods, of the conviction that each of the characters in the work maintains his or her typical language, which can be characterized by a set of key words and key expressions. The second, related, result is the presentation of the acquired set of keywords in terms of the concept of "mind style". This notion was introduced by Roger Fowler in 1977 and is based on the study of typical, regular and consistent lexical choices, which can be observed as a certain pattern or manner of language conveying the speaker's view of the world and of his or her mental self. In the chapter dealing with the theoretical background of the thesis, the connecting line between modernist literature, stream-of-consciousness method, corpus linguistics, and mind style was clarified. Furthermore, the method of the work was defined and its limitations and possible difficulties were also indicated. For the section focused on linguistic and literary research, a list of all the direct speeches of the novel was compiled in a spreadsheet and...
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