Speech, Writing, and Thought Presentation in 19th-Century Narrative Fiction

Beatrix Busse is Vice-Rector of Student Affairs and Teaching and Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Cologne (Germany). She is Reviews Editor for the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics and honorary research fellow at Glasgow University, and co-author or editor of multiple books including Patterns in Language and Linguistics: New Perspectives on a Ubiquitous Concept (2019), Rethinking Language, Text and Context (2018), Key Terms in Stylistics (2010), and Language and Style (2010). Her main research interests are corpus linguistics, stylistics, historical pragmatics, and language and urban space.

• List of AbbreviationsList of Tables and FiguresAcknowledgements Chapter 1: Introduction 1.1 This Study and Its Aims 1.2 My Version of English Historical Linguistics Chapter 2: The Discourse Presentation Model So Far 2.1 Presentation of Voices: Leech and Short's (1981/2007) and Semino and Short's (2004) Models of Speech, Writing, and Thought Presentation 2.2 The Notion of Faithfulness to an Anterior Discourse in Narrative Fiction 2.3 "State-of-the-Art" Research on Speech, Writing, and Thought Presentation in 19th-Century English 2.4 Additional Linguistic Frameworks and Models Necessary to the Analysis of Discourse Presentation in 19th-Century Narrative Fiction 2.5 Wrap up and What is NextChapter 3: Methodology 3.1 The Corpus and Its Scope3.2 The Annotation Scheme 3.3 The Annotation Procedure 3.4 Methodological Caveats Chapter 4: Types, Distribution, and Lexico-Grammatical Realization of Discourse Presentation Categories and Their Functional Implications 4.1 General Quantitative Observations 4.2 The Different Categories of the Modes of Discourse Presentation: Quantification of Tags and Number of Words by Which These Are Represented Chapter 5: Scales and Modes of Discourse Presentation and their Functions 5.1 A Note on Subjectivity 5.2 The Categories of Discourse Presentation 5.3. Subcategories of Speech, Writing, and Thought Presentation 5.4 Summary Discourse Presentation in 19th-Century Narrative Fiction - Further Reflections Chapter 6: Towards Developing a Procedure for Automatically Identifying Speech, Writing, and Thought Presentation 6.1 Preliminaries6.2 The Procedure Chapter 7: Narrative Progression and Characterization: The Functional Interplay between Narration and Discourse Presentation 7.1. Reporting Strategies of NRS, NRT, and NRW and Discourse Presentation 7.2 Paralinguistic Narration 7.3 Imagination and Observation: Thought Presentation and Visual Narration in19th-Century Narrative FictionChapter 8: Conclusion Endnotes Bibliography Index

This book is an exemplar of the rigour, replicability, and insight offered by the combination of stylistics and corpus linguistics. It is a turning point in the study of speech, writing, and thought presentation, and will be regarded by stylisticians, narratologists, and corpus linguists alike as a key contribution to their respective disciplines.