A contrastive analysis of two phraseological motifs specific to English and French fantasy and historical novels

This article proposes a contrastive phraseological approach to distinguish and characterize two literary (sub)genres: French and English fantasy (FY) and historical (HIST) novels. The approach is based on recurrent lexico-syntactic constructions, automatically extracted from large corpora of contemp...

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出版年:URI:https://journals.openedition.org/corpus,
主要な著者: Gymnich, Marion, Novakova, Iva
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出版事項: Corpus 2025
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オンライン・アクセス:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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要約:This article proposes a contrastive phraseological approach to distinguish and characterize two literary (sub)genres: French and English fantasy (FY) and historical (HIST) novels. The approach is based on recurrent lexico-syntactic constructions, automatically extracted from large corpora of contemporary novels in both languages (since the 1950s). We apply the method of Recurrent Lexical-Syntactic Trees (RLTs, Kraif 2019). The corpus-driven analysis of the two corpora (FY and HIST) is based on the concept of phraseological motifs, which has proved useful in comparing novels in both languages from a linguistic and stylistic point of view. By means of two case studies (on the statistically specific patterns ,