This contribution presents a corpus-assisted analysis of Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), a postcolonial prequel to Jane Eyre. The study is part of a larger research project on the role of corpus linguistics in Ruqaiya Hasan’s model forthe study of literature, Systemic Socio-Semantic Stylistics (Hasan 1989, 2007). Combining quantitative findings from corpus-assisted investigation with qualitative considerations, it focuses on the Appraisal patterns (Martin and White 2005) involving the adjective 'white' and its collocates in Rhys’ novel, and examines their role in symbolically articulating part of the text’s deepest meaning, or theme (Hasan 1989: 97-98).
Antonella Luporini (2019). The symbolic articulation of other-ness: A corpus-assisted analysis of Wide Sargasso Sea. Pisa : Pisa University Press.
The symbolic articulation of other-ness: A corpus-assisted analysis of Wide Sargasso Sea
Antonella Luporini
2019
Abstract
This contribution presents a corpus-assisted analysis of Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea (1966), a postcolonial prequel to Jane Eyre. The study is part of a larger research project on the role of corpus linguistics in Ruqaiya Hasan’s model forthe study of literature, Systemic Socio-Semantic Stylistics (Hasan 1989, 2007). Combining quantitative findings from corpus-assisted investigation with qualitative considerations, it focuses on the Appraisal patterns (Martin and White 2005) involving the adjective 'white' and its collocates in Rhys’ novel, and examines their role in symbolically articulating part of the text’s deepest meaning, or theme (Hasan 1989: 97-98).I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
