Pseudo-oral discourse in literary texts: Interdisciplinary studies at the interface of quantitative-linguistic and literary approaches with a focus on James Joyce's Ulysses

该项目位于语言学和文学研究的界面，并与真实的口语相比，研究文学英语文本中的“口语”的表征。我们将主要关注詹姆斯·乔伊斯（James Joyce）的作品以及其他现代作家的作品，他们据说非常接近真实的对话，但也会借鉴前现代和后现代的文本来补充和验证我们的结果。本文将运用计算语言学的工具和方法对文学作品进行多层次的注释，包括词汇语义、句法、语篇语言和语篇语用因素。注释将在相关软件的帮助下生成，并进行手动校正和验证。通过创建和分析丰富的注释在一个全面的语料库的文学文本，我们打算作出贡献的方法工具箱的定量语言学以及实证文学研究。这些文本将从语言学的角度进行分析，采用现代定量分析方法，并从文学的角度，特别关注具体的文学策略和技巧。这种跨学科的方法将使我们能够探讨a）在语域分析的框架内，真实的口头和其文学表现之间的系统和功能差异，B）各自的文本特征在文学对话中的诗意功能，以及c）作者在创造伪口头时所采用的语言和文学/叙事策略。这些主题将在多维方法的基础上进行研究：在文本内，我们将分析和比较对话和非对话的段落，不同人物的言语行为，以及在不同章节中的口语表现。在互文性方面，我们将探索口述性的各种表现形式--一些更真实，另一些更程式化--在18世纪到20世纪不同作者和文学时代的作品中，与非文学语料库的相关数据进行对比。基于相对大量数据的实证方法将使我们能够补充，验证，并在必要时，修改先前建立的概念或理论的伪口头文学研究。此外，我们的研究将有助于语域研究，通过调查一个研究不足的语域（伪口语语篇），系统地结合了口语和书面语篇的属性。在更一般的层面上，我们认为我们的项目是对弥合当代语言学中语言学和文学研究之间差距的努力的贡献。

This project is situated at the interface of linguistics and literary studies and investigates the representation of 'spoken language' in literary English texts in comparison with authentic spoken language. We will primarily focus on James Joyce's Ulysses and other modern authors who reputedly feature close approximations to authentic dialogues, but also draw on premodern and postmodern texts to supplement and validate our results. Tools and methods from computational linguistics will be employed for multilevel annotations of the literary works, including lexical-semantic, syntactic, text-linguistic and discourse pragmatic factors. The annotations will be generated with the help of relevant software and manually corrected and validated. By creating and analysing rich annotations in a comprehensive corpus of literary texts we intend to make a contribution to the methodological toolbox of quantitative linguistics as well as to empirical literature studies. The texts will be analysed both from a linguistic point of view, employing modern quantitative methods of analysis, and from a literary perspective with special attention to specifically literary strategies and techniques. This interdisciplinary approach will allow us to explore a) systematic and functional differences between authentic orality and its literary representation within the framework of linguistic register analysis, b) the poetic functions of the respective textual features in literary dialogues and c) the linguistic and literary/narrative strategies employed by the authors in the creation of pseudo orality. These topics will be investigated on the basis of a multidimensional approach: Intratextually, we will analyse and compare dialogical and non-dialogical passages, the speech acts of different characters, and, in the case of Ulysses, also the representation of orality in different chapters. Intertextually, we will explore various representations of orality -- some more authentic, others more stylized - in the works of different authors and literary epochs from the 18th to the 20th centuries, in contrast with relevant data from non-literary corpora. The empirical approach based on relatively large amounts of data will allow us to supplement, validate, and, if necessary, revise previously established concepts or theories of pseudo-orality in literary studies. In addition, our research will contribute to register studies by investigating an under-researched register (pseudo-oral discourse) which systematically combines properties of oral and written discourse. At a more general level, we regard our project as a contribution to attempts at bridging the gap between linguistics and literary studies in contemporary philology.