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A Corpus Stylistics Approach to Contemporary Present-tense Narrative
Reiko Ikeo, Eri Shigematsu and Masayuki Nakao
[Linguistic Approaches to Literature 43] 2024
► pp. 97–143

Chapter 6
Comparisons of speech presentation in PREST and PAST

This chapter provides quantitative and qualitative comparisons of speech presentation in the PREST and PAST corpora. After a general overview of speech presentation in the two corpora, the functional and stylistic differences in the presentation of character speech will be discussed in two divisions: direct and indirect forms of speech. For the former, we have made two sub-corpora containing all the reported clauses of FDS and DS extracted from each of the PREST and PAST to examine how characters communicate with each other. For indirect forms, which include FIS, IS, NRSA(p) and NV, how each category contextually functions will be examined in each corpus.
Article outline
  • 6.1Quantitative overview
  • 6.2Direct forms of speech
    • 6.2.1Faithfulness claims and the distinction between FDS and DS
    • 6.2.2Free Direct Speech (FDS)
    • 6.2.3Direct Speech (DS)
    • 6.2.4Stylistic features of the direct forms of speech presentation
      • 6.2.4.1Key POS tag and keyword lists in Sub DS-PREST
        • (1)Key POS tag list
        • (2)Keyword list
      • 6.2.4.2Key POS tag and keyword lists in Sub DS-PAST
        • (1)Key POS tag list
        • (2)Keyword list
      • 6.2.4.3Four-gram lists of Sub DS-PREST and Sub DS-PAST
  • 6.3Indirect forms of speech
    • 6.3.1Free Indirect Speech (FIS)
    • 6.3.2Indirect Speech (IS)
    • 6.3.3Narrator’s Representation of Speech Acts (NRSA)
    • 6.3.4Narrator’s Representation of Voice (NV)
  • 6.4Conclusion
  • Notes
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