Acknowledgements // Foreword // List of conventions // List of figures and tables // List of appendixes List of concordances // CHAPTER 1 // Introduction // 1.1 The issues at stake i // 1.2 The design of this book 2 // CHAPTER 2 // Virginia Woolf’s The Waves // 5 // 2.1 Virginia Woolf and the modernist character 5 // 2.2 Introduction to The Waves 6 // 2.2.1 Conception 7 // 2.2.2 Structure 8 // 2.2.3 Method of characterization 9 // 2.2.4 Debate over characterization 11 // 2.2.5 Studies on lexical patterns 13 // 2.2.6 Psychoanalytic approaches to character 15 // chapter 3 // Literature review 19 // 3.1 The state of affairs in literary characterization 19 // 3.1.1 Characters as people and as textual constructs 19 // 3.1.2 Character typologies 22 // 3.2 Psychological concepts in the perception of personality 24 // 3.2.1 Prior knowledge and schema theory 25 // 3.2.2 History of schema theory 26 // vin A Corpus Linguistic Approach to Literary Language and Characterization // 3.3 Stylistic approaches to characterization 28 // 3.3.1 Culpepers model for characterization: Top-down and bottom-up 29 // 3.3.2 Cognitive metaphor, mind style and characterization 33 // 3.4 Studies of language and personality 35 // 3.5 Conclusion 39 // chapter 4 // Corpus approaches to the study of language and literature 41 // 4.1 Introduction 41 // 4.2 Corpus annotation 44 // 4.3 Techniques employed in corpus analyses 45 // 4.4 Corpus annotation of literary texts 49 // 4.4.1 Quantitative stylistic approaches to literary texts 51 // 4.4.2 Authorial style 52 // 4.4.3 Characterization 55 // 4.4.3.1 Characterization in The Waves 56 // chapter 5 // Methodology 59 // 5.1 Introduction 59 // 5.2 The narrative framework of The Waves 59 // 5.2.1 Synchronic and diachronic structure 60 // 5.2.2 The Waves as e-text: Text annotation and text division 64 //
5.3 Wmatrix: A software tool for corpus analysis and comparison 66 // 5.3.1 The CLAWS and USAS taggers and their tagsets 67 // 5.4 The Waves through Wmatrix 70 // 5.4.1 Adaptation and revision of POS and USAS tagsets 72 // 5.4.2 Data layout in Microsoft Excel 76 // 5.4.3 Post-editing of the soliloquy text 78 // 5.4.4 Token count of the soliloquy text 81 // chapter 6 // Character differentiation through word-classes 83 // 6.1 Introduction 83 // 6.2 Word-class and characters language 83 // 6.2.1 Word-classes in the whole soliloquy text and in each character 85 // 6.2.2 Data comparison and treatment of the LL statistics 89 // 6.2.3 Characters word-classes in each phase of life: // Significant differences relative to each character 93 // a. Susan 96 // b. Jinny 96 // Table of contents // c. Rhoda 97 // d. Louis 97 // e. Neville 98 // f. Bernard 98 // 6.2.4 Bernard’s word-classes in the final soliloquy 99 // 6.3 Summary 102 // chapter 7 // Character differentiation: Semantic fields // 7.1 Introduction 107 // 7.2 Data comparison and treatment of the LL statistics 108 // 7.3 The characters’ schema of gender dichotomy 112 //
7.4 The female characters 114 // 7.4.1 Susan 115 // a. The Natural World 116 // b. The House 120 // c. Home-making activities 121 // d. Family and Motherhood 122 // e. Time 123 // f. The Senses 125 // 7.4.2 Jinny 127 // a. The Body 127 // b. Colours 130 // c. Movement 131 74-3 Rhoda 133 // a. The Natural World 134 // b. Movement 136 // c. Emotions 139 // d. Shapes 140 // e. Colours 142 // 7.5 The female characters’ semantic fields and personality traits // 7.6 The male characters 150 // 7.6.1 Louis 150 // a. Geographical names 151 // b. People and Relationships 152 // c. The Natural World 158 // d. History and Literature 159 // 7.6.2 Neville 161 // a. Literature and Philosophy 161 // b. Academic Interests 165 // x A Corpus Linguistic Approach to Literary Language and Characterization // 7.6.3 Bernard 166 // a. Cognition and Abstraction 167 // b. Intellectual Interests 172 // 7.7 The male characters semantic fields and personality traits 175 // 7.8 Bernard’s final summing-up and his dramatic role 178 // 7.9 Conclusion: The characters semantic fields and their personality traits 182 // 7.10 Percival: The other-presented character 183 // chapter 8 // Conclusion 185 // 8.1 Achievements 185 // 8.2 Characterization in this study 186 // 8.3 Reading through the computer 187 // 8.4 Authorial style versus character voice 188 // 8.5 Further directions 190 // References 193 // Websites 211 // Appendixes 213 // Author index 273 // Subject index 275