An Integrated Study of Small-Corpus-Based Stylistics and the Theory of Meaning

本研究将基于小语料库的方法与基于非语料库的方法相结合，提高了小语料库方法的有效性和效度。基于小语料库的研究方法主要关注作者写作的具体结果，而不能探究导致这种结果的原因或过程。例如，在文章中，“一个小语料库为基础的方法来爱丽丝的角色”采用文学和语言计算，搭配数据爱丽丝很好地检索爱丽丝是如何描述的修饰语和她如何说话的状语，但遗憾的是爱丽丝被称为别人。以语料库为基础的定量研究方法，即处理“指称”，而“意义”则需要通过文本解释或有时推断处理来把握。这一定性研究方法需要综合文体学、语用学、认知语言学和关联理论的研究成果，从而形成一种新的意义理论，这两种不同研究方法的结合有助于阐明文学作品的外在价值和内在价值。本研究展示了小语料处理的文体学研究的具体步骤之一，为Stubbs（2005：22）的“不可避免的主观解释提供了更系统的证据”。

This study develops effectiveness and validity of the small-corpus-based approach combined with the non-corpus-based. The small-corpus-based approach mainly treats the concrete results of the author's writing, but cannot fathom causes or processes leading to the results. For example in the article, 'A Small-Corpus Based Approach to Alice's Roles' adopted in Literary and Linguistic Computing, collocation data for Alice serve well to retrieve how Alice is described in terms of modifiers and how she speaks in terms of adverbials, but regrettably what Alice is called by others. The corpus-based quantitative approach, in other words, deals with 'reference' while 'sense' should be grasped through textual interpretation or sometimes inferred processing. This qualitative approach requires comprehensive studies in stylistics, pragmatics, cognitive linguistics and relevance theory, which leads to a new theory of meaning.An integrated study of two different approaches collaborated contributes to the elucidation of the extrinsic and intrinsic value of literary works. The study exhibits one of concrete procedures for stylistic research with small corpus processing, which provides 'more systematic evidence for unavoidable subjective interpretation' as in Stubbs (2005 : 22).