A Corpus Linguistic Approach to Literary Language and Characterization -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- List of conventions -- List of figures and tables -- List of appendixes -- List of concordances -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 The issues at stake -- 1.2 The design of this book -- 2. Virginia Woolf's The Waves -- 2.1 Virginia Woolf and the modernist character -- 2.2 Introduction to The Waves -- 2.2.1 Conception -- 2.2.2 Structure -- 2.2.3 Method of characterization -- 2.2.4 Debate over characterization -- 2.2.5 Studies on lexical patterns -- 2.2.6 Psychoanalytic approaches to character -- 3. Literature review -- 3.1 The state of affairs in literary characterization -- 3.1.1 Characters as people and as textual constructs -- 3.1.2 Character typologies -- 3.2 Psychological concepts in the perception of personality -- 3.2.1 Prior knowledge and schema theory -- 3.2.2 History of schema theory -- 3.3 Stylistic approaches to characterization -- 3.3.1 Culpeper's model for characterization: Top-down and bottom-up -- 3.3.2 Cognitive metaphor, mind style and characterization -- 3.4 Studies of language and personality -- 3.5 Conclusion -- 4. Corpus approaches to the study of language and literature -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Corpus annotation -- 4.3 Techniques employed in corpus analyses -- 4.4 Corpus annotation of literary texts -- 4.4.1 Quantitative stylistic approaches to literary texts -- 4.4.2 Authorial style -- 4.4.3 Characterization -- 4.4.3.1 Characterization in The Waves -- 5. Methodology -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 The narrative framework of The Waves -- 5.2.1 Synchronic and diachronic structure -- 5.2.2 The Waves as e-text: Text annotation and text division -- 5.3 Wmatrix: A software tool for corpus analysis and comparison.

5.3.1 The CLAWS and USAS taggers and their tagsets -- 5.4 The Waves through Wmatrix -- 5.4.1 Adaptation and revision of POS and USAS tagsets -- 5.4.2 Data layout in Microsoft Excel -- 5.4.3 Post-editing of the soliloquy text -- 5.4.4 Token count of the soliloquy text -- 6. Character differentiation through word-classes -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Word-class and characters' language -- 6.2.1 Word-classes in the whole soliloquy text and in each character -- 6.2.2 Data comparison and treatment of the LL statistics -- 6.2.3 Characters' word-classes in each phase of life: Significant differences relative to each char -- a. Susan -- b. Jinny -- c. Rhoda -- d. Louis -- e. Neville -- f. Bernard -- 6.2.4 Bernard's word-classes in the final soliloquy -- 6.3 Summary -- 7. Character differentiation: Semantic fields -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Data comparison and treatment of the LL statistics -- 7.3 The characters' schema of gender dichotomy -- 7.4 The female characters -- 7.4.1 Susan -- a. The Natural World -- b. The House -- c. Home-making activities -- d. Family and Motherhood -- e. Time -- f. The Senses -- 7.4.2 Jinny -- a. The Body -- b. Colours -- c. Movement -- 7.4.3 Rhoda -- a. The Natural World -- b. Movement -- c. Emotions -- f. Colours -- 7.5 The female characters' semantic fields and personality traits -- 7.6 The male characters -- 7.6.1 Louis -- a. Geographical names -- b. People and Relationships -- d. History and Literature -- 7.6.2 Neville -- a. Literature and Philosophy -- b. Academic Interests -- 7.6.3 Bernard -- a. Cognition and Abstraction -- b. Intellectual interests -- 7.7 The male characters' semantic fields and personality traits -- 7.8 Bernard's final summing-up and his dramatic role -- 7.9 Conclusion: The characters' semantic fields and their personality traits -- 7.10 Percival: The other-presented character -- 8. Conclusion.

8.1 Achievements -- 8.2 Characterization in this study -- 8.3 Reading through the computer -- 8.4 Authorial style versus character voice -- 8.5 Further directions -- References -- Websites -- Appendix A. Log-likelihood calculator -- Appendix B. UCREL semantic tagset and UCREL modified semantic tagset -- Appendix C. ALLCHRS POS and USAS (Data file on CD) -- Appendix D. Each character's statistically significant LL values for the word-classes -- Appendix E. Number of statistically significant differences in each character's life stage -- Appendix F. Susan's significant differences relative to each character -- Appendix G. Jinny's significant differences relative to each character -- Appendix H. Rhoda's significant differences relative to each character -- Appendix I. Louis' significant differences relative to each character -- Appendix J. Neville's significant differences relative to each character -- Appendix K. Bernard's significant differences relative to each character -- Appendix L. Each character's semantic fields in all speaking sections -- Appendix M. Each character's overused semantic fields -- Appendix N. Each character's frequency distribution for the most overused semantic fields -- Author index -- Subject index.