Chapter 13. Point and CLiC
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Michaela Mahlberg
Abstract
This chapter looks at the corpus tool CLiC, a web application specifically designed for the study of literary texts. It allows students to run concordances or generate keywords, for instance. It gives students the opportunity to work with a corpus of Dickens novels, but also with novels by other nineteenth century authors. Unlike more general corpus tools, CLiC enables searches that help to address research questions particular to literary texts. We investigate the question as to what kind of corpus exercises can be designed to help students understand the variety of opportunities that corpus approaches to literary texts offer. We deal with issues of frequency, but also with links between concepts in literary linguistics and corpus linguistics, specifically characterization and mind-modelling. We focus on examples from Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist for an illustrative case-study.
Abstract
This chapter looks at the corpus tool CLiC, a web application specifically designed for the study of literary texts. It allows students to run concordances or generate keywords, for instance. It gives students the opportunity to work with a corpus of Dickens novels, but also with novels by other nineteenth century authors. Unlike more general corpus tools, CLiC enables searches that help to address research questions particular to literary texts. We investigate the question as to what kind of corpus exercises can be designed to help students understand the variety of opportunities that corpus approaches to literary texts offer. We deal with issues of frequency, but also with links between concepts in literary linguistics and corpus linguistics, specifically characterization and mind-modelling. We focus on examples from Charles Dickens’s Oliver Twist for an illustrative case-study.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword vii
- Acknowledgements xiii
- Contributors xv
- Chapter 1. Empirical approaches to the study of literature in learning environments 1
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Part I. Reading processes in communities of practices
- Chapter 2. Learning from literature 19
- Chapter 3. Authorizing the reader in the classroom 39
- Chapter 4. Transforming readings 57
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Part II. Reading processes in EFL/L2 contexts
- Chapter 5. Enhancing responses to literary texts with L2 learners 83
- Chapter 6. Empirical stylistics in an EFL teaching context 105
- Chapter 7. Literary themes across cultures 125
- Chapter 8. Of learning and poetics 151
- Chapter 9. Literature and the role of background knowledge for EFL learners 169
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Part III. Creative writing, corpus, and empirical stylistics as learning tools
- Chapter 10. Effects of creative writing on adolescent students’ literary response 193
- Chapter 11. ESL students’ perceptions of creative and academic writing 213
- Chapter 12. Empirical stylistics as a learning and research tool in the study of narrative viewpoint 227
- Chapter 13. Point and CLiC 253
- Chapter 14. Literary awareness in a high-school EFL learning environment 271
- Index 303
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Foreword vii
- Acknowledgements xiii
- Contributors xv
- Chapter 1. Empirical approaches to the study of literature in learning environments 1
-
Part I. Reading processes in communities of practices
- Chapter 2. Learning from literature 19
- Chapter 3. Authorizing the reader in the classroom 39
- Chapter 4. Transforming readings 57
-
Part II. Reading processes in EFL/L2 contexts
- Chapter 5. Enhancing responses to literary texts with L2 learners 83
- Chapter 6. Empirical stylistics in an EFL teaching context 105
- Chapter 7. Literary themes across cultures 125
- Chapter 8. Of learning and poetics 151
- Chapter 9. Literature and the role of background knowledge for EFL learners 169
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Part III. Creative writing, corpus, and empirical stylistics as learning tools
- Chapter 10. Effects of creative writing on adolescent students’ literary response 193
- Chapter 11. ESL students’ perceptions of creative and academic writing 213
- Chapter 12. Empirical stylistics as a learning and research tool in the study of narrative viewpoint 227
- Chapter 13. Point and CLiC 253
- Chapter 14. Literary awareness in a high-school EFL learning environment 271
- Index 303