Changing Patterns in the Shona Novel from Zimbabwe - A Linguistic Literary Analysis

这个跨学科研究项目的目的是建立一种模式，使文学和语言学研究结合起来分析非洲语言文学。调查语料库包括三个来自津巴布韦的Shona小说，它们代表了该类型发展的不同阶段：P. Chakaipa的pumo reropa (1961)， C. Mungoshi的Ndiko kupindana kwamazuva（1975）和I. Mabasa的Mapenzi（1999）。该项目在将Toolbox（一个语言学计算机程序）应用于文学语料库方面开辟了新的领域。接受过语言学和文学训练的肖纳语母语人士将协助评价电子生成的数据。位于文学和语言科学（文体学，话语分析，叙事学）界面的理论概念将被用于使用语言学发现对语料库进行整体文学分析。

The interdisciplinary research project aims at establishing a model for joining literary and linguistic scholarship in the analysis of African language literatures. The corpus of investigation consists of three Shona novels from Zimbabwe, which are representative of different stages in the development of the genre: P. Chakaipa s Pfumo reropa (1961), C. Mungoshi s Ndiko kupindana kwamazuva (1975) and I. Mabasa s Mapenzi (1999). The project breaches new ground in applying Toolbox, a linguistic computer program, to a literary corpus. Native Shona speakers trained in linguistics and literature will assist in the evaluation of the electronically generated data. Theoretical concepts situated at the interface of literary and linguistic sciences (stylistics, discourse analysis, narratology) will be employed to use linguistic findings for an overall literary analysis of the corpus.