Stockwell Peter, Mahlberg Michaela
University of Nottingham, UK.
Lang Lit (Harlow). 2015 May;24(2):129-147. doi: 10.1177/0963947015576168.
We suggest an innovative approach to literary discourse by using corpus linguistic methods to address research questions from cognitive poetics. In this article, we focus on the way that readers engage in in the process of characterisation. The article sets out our cognitive poetic model of characterisation that emphasises the continuity between literary characterisation and real-life human relationships. The model also aims to deal with the modelling of the author's mind in line with the modelling of the minds of fictional characters. Crucially, our approach to mind-modelling is text-driven. Therefore we are able to employ corpus linguistic techniques systematically to identify textual patterns that function as cues triggering character information. In this article, we explore our understanding of mind-modelling through the characterisation of Mr. Dick from by Charles Dickens. Using the CLiC tool (Corpus Linguistics in Cheshire) developed for the exploration of 19th-century fiction, we investigate the textual traces in non-quotations around this character, in order to draw out the techniques of characterisation other than speech presentation. We show that Mr. Dick is a thematically and authorially significant character in the novel, and we move towards a rigorous account of the reader's modelling of authorial intention.
我们建议采用一种创新方法来研究文学话语，即运用语料库语言学方法来解决认知诗学中的研究问题。在本文中，我们关注读者在人物塑造过程中的参与方式。文章阐述了我们的人物塑造认知诗学模型，该模型强调文学人物塑造与现实生活中人际关系之间的连续性。该模型还旨在根据虚构人物的心理建模来处理作者心理的建模。至关重要的是，我们的心理建模方法是以文本为驱动的。因此，我们能够系统地运用语料库语言学技术来识别作为触发人物信息线索的文本模式。在本文中，我们通过查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫·科波菲尔》中对迪克先生的人物塑造来探索我们对心理建模的理解。使用为探索19世纪小说而开发的CLiC工具（柴郡语料库语言学），我们研究该人物周围非引语中的文本痕迹，以便找出除言语呈现之外的人物塑造技巧。我们表明迪克先生是该小说中一个具有主题意义和作者意义的人物，并且我们朝着对读者对作者意图建模的严谨描述迈进。
