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Corpus-assisted Systemic Socio-Semantic Stylistics: Exploring ‘white’ and ‘red’ in Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea
Published 05/10/2019
Keywords
- Corpus stylistics,
- Systemic Socio-Semantic Stylistics,
- Wide Sargasso Sea,
- Appraisal,
- white/red
- other-ness ...More
How to Cite
Luporini, A. (2019). Corpus-assisted Systemic Socio-Semantic Stylistics: Exploring ‘white’ and ‘red’ in Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea. L’Analisi Linguistica E Letteraria, 27(1). Retrieved from http://www.analisilinguisticaeletteraria.eu/index.php/ojs/article/view/80
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Abstract
This contribution presents a corpus-assisted analysis of Wide Sargasso Sea, a postcolonial prequel to Jane Eyre. The study is part of a research project on the role of corpus linguistics in Hasan’s Systemic Socio-Semantic Stylistics (Hasan 1989). Combining quantitative findings and qualitative considerations, I focus on the Appraisal patterns (Martin – White 2005) involving white and red in Rhys’ text and examine their role in ‘symbolically articulating’ part of its deepest meaning (‘theme’).