Anastasia Gnatciuc, Hanna Gnatchuk
| GLOTTOMETRICS | Issue 48, pp 52 – 66 (2020) |
Abstract
The present study is concerned with the identification of English styles in terms of D. Biber’s proposed dimensions (1988). In this study this identification is relied upon the data about the parts of speech. Moreover, we are interested in detecting the relationships between the styles (belles-lettres, official, news scientific and miscellaneous styles), on the one hand, an their subsections (editorial, romance, adventure, learned, reviews, etc.) in the Brown Corpus in terms of three dimensions: “involved (interactive) versus informational production”, “description versus reporting” and “narrative versus nonnarrative”. The Brown Corpus texts were accessed in Python 3 (environment Anaconda) by means of the tagged algorithm. The results were statistically processed in R-Studio Program.
Key words
English genres/styles, parts of speech, stylistics, corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, statistics, dimensions.