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A comparative corpus stylistic analysis of thematization and characterization in Gordimer’s My Son’s Story and Coetzee’s Disgrace
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In: Open Linguistics, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 46-64 (2022) (2022)
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My Son’s Story and Disgrace are two novels written by two South African Noble laureates – Nadine Gordimer and J. M. Coetzee, respectively. The current study attempts to comparatively uncover the thematic foci as well as characterization aspects and interpersonal relations between characters in the two novels by dint of corpus linguistic tools, i.e., keywords and key clusters. Thus, using Sketch Engine online interface, the study presents a comparative thematic categorization of the two novels – a categorization which proves congruent with the thematization provided by previous critical literary studies of each novel. Both novels are found to revolve around racial tensions and illicit relationships in South Africa. However, although My Son’s Story is set during the apartheid and Disgrace is set after the apartheid is supposedly over, comparative corpus-driven investigation of the two novels reveals that the South Africa promised in My Son’s Story is betrayed in Disgrace, since racial violence and cross-race sexual dissipation persist. Quantitatively, using the notion of local textual functions, the associations between the use of key clusters, their repercussions on characters’ depiction, and their interpersonal relationships are uncovered. Clear affinities between the two protagonists, Sonny and David, are discerned, e.g., their love for music and literature, their sexual whims, their unsettled relationships with their children, etc. Empirically, the father–son/daughter turbulences, husband–wife vicissitudes, landlord–farmer intricacies, and love affairs’ intricacies are fathomed.
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apartheid; characterization; corpus stylistics; illicit love; local textual functions; noble laureates; P1-1091; Philology. Linguistics; race; south africa; thematization
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URL: https://doaj.org/article/e07080eef6144d24986b181e61542207
https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2020-0183
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For a Better Dictionary: Revisiting Ecolexicography as a New Paradigm
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In: Lexikos, Vol 31, Pp 281-321 (2022) (2022)
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Performing Non-sexism via Degendering Phoric Forms in English: The Gap between Rules and Practice as Observed in the 9th Edition of Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary of Current English
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In: Lexikos, Vol 30, Pp 275-292 (2022) (2022)
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A long walk to freedom: Charting a way for doing comparative translation studies in Africa
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In: Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, Vol 61, Iss 0, Pp 65-80 (2021) (2021)
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Lexicographic Data Boxes Part 3: Aspects of Data Boxes in Bilingual Dictionaries and a Perspective on Current and Future Data Boxes
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In: Lexikos, Vol 31, Pp 402-433 (2021) (2021)
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Construal of Mental Health Problems in English Learners' Dictionaries
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In: Lexikos, Vol 31, Pp 1-19 (2021) (2021)
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Dictionaries Integrated into English Learning Apps: Critical Comments and Suggestions for Improvement
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In: Lexikos, Vol 31, Pp 68-92 (2021) (2021)
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Corpus Linguistics Methods for Building ESP Word Lists, Glossaries and Dictionaries on the Example of a Marine Engineering Word List
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In: Lexikos, Vol 31, Pp 259-282 (2021) (2021)
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Use of Dictionaries and Online Tools for Reading by Thai EFL Learners in a Naturalistic Setting
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In: Lexikos, Vol 31, Pp 239-258 (2021) (2021)
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Lexicographic Data Boxes. Part 2: Types and Contents of Data Boxes with Particular Focus on Dictionaries for English and African Languages
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In: Lexikos, Vol 31, Pp 374-401 (2021) (2021)
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Feminine Personal Nouns in the Polish Language. Derivational and Lexicographical Issues
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In: Lexikos, Vol 31, Pp 101-118 (2021) (2021)
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Between designer drugs and afterburners: A Lexicographic-Semantic Study of Equivalence
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In: Lexikos, Vol 21, Pp 1-22 (2021) (2021)
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Another isiXhosa Monolingual Dictionary: A Critical Analysis of the Shuters IsiChazi-magama SesiXhosa
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In: Lexikos, Vol 440, Iss 467, Pp 440-467 (2021) (2021)
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Zur Darstellung eines mehrstufigen Prototypbegriffs in der multilingualen automatischen Sprachgenerierung: vom Korpus über word embeddings bis hin zum automatischen Wörterbuch
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In: Lexikos, Vol 31, Pp 20-50 (2021) (2021)
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Fostering Learners' Online Dictionary Skills through Active Dictionary Rubrics
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In: Lexikos, Vol 31, Pp 487-510 (2021) (2021)
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Towards a Legal Dictionary Dutch–Limburgish: Preferences and Opportunities
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In: Lexikos, Vol 31, Pp 146-158 (2021) (2021)
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Italian Dictionaries of Abbreviations and the Preparation of Entries of the Italian–Slovene Dictionary of Abbreviations
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In: Lexikos, Vol 31, Pp 195-213 (2021) (2021)
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Das Modul Werbeslogans. Eine korpusinformierte lexikografische Ressource zum aktuellen Gebrauch von Werbeslogans außerhalb der Domäne Werbung
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In: Lexikos, Vol 31, Pp 119-145 (2021) (2021)
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Die leksikografiese bewerking van verwantskapsterme in Sepedi
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In: Lexikos, Vol 22, Pp 261-271 (2021) (2021)
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Literary Quotations in Bilingual Dictionaries: A Case Study of a Nineteenth-century Dutch–Chinese Dictionary
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In: Lexikos, Vol 31, Pp 51-67 (2021) (2021)
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