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交汇处，研究文学英语文本中“口语”的表现与真实口语的比较。我们将主要关注詹姆斯·乔伊斯的《尤利西斯》和其他现代作家，据说他们的特点是接近真实的对话，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。计算语言学的工具和方法将被用于文学作品的多层次注释，包括词汇语义、句法、文本语言和语篇语用因素。注释将在相关软件的帮助下生成，并手动校正和验证。通过在文学文本的综合语料库中创建和分析丰富的注释，我们打算为定量语言学的方法论工具箱以及实证文学研究做出贡献。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索：a)在语言语域分析的框架内，真实口述与其文学表现之间的系统和功能差异；b)文学对话中各自文本特征的诗歌功能；c)作者在创作伪口述时采用的语言和文学/叙事策略。这些主题将在多维方法的基础上进行调查：在文本中，我们将分析和比较对话和非对话的段落，不同角色的言语行为，以及在尤利西斯的情况下，在不同章节中的口头表达。与非文学语料库的相关数据相比，我们将在18世纪到20世纪的不同作家和文学时代的作品中探索各种口头表达——一些更真实，另一些更程式化。基于相对大量数据的实证方法将使我们能够补充，验证，并在必要时修改文学研究中先前建立的伪口语概念或理论。此外，我们的研究将通过调查一个研究不足的语域（伪口语语篇）来促进语域研究，该语域系统地结合了口语和书面语篇的特性。在更普遍的层面上，我们认为我们的项目对弥合当代语言学和文学研究之间的差距做出了贡献。

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.