Measuring the style of chick lit and literature

K.J. Jautze

Measuring the style of chick lit and literature

K.J. Jautze

Huygens ING - Letterkunde

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Abstract

This paper examines to what extent the distribution of the hundred most frequent function words of two novelistic genres (chick lit and literature) gives insight into the genre styles. The results shows that the literary style is more descriptive and informational, whereas the style of the chick-lit novels tends to be more involved and to a greater extent resembles spoken language.

Original language	English
Pages	480-482
Number of pages	3
Publication status	Published - 10 Jul 2014
Event	Digital Humanities Conference - Lausanne, United Kingdom Duration: 08 Jul 2014 → 12 Jul 2014

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Conference	Digital Humanities Conference
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Lausanne
Period	08/07/2014 → 12/07/2014

Keywords

chick lit
literature
novelistic genres
stylometry

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Measuring the style of chick lit and literature

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