A Corpus-based Stylistic Study of Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea

Abstract

Corpus stylistics is an emerging research field that combines corpus linguistics research with the stylistics. Based on the research method of corpus stylistics, this article builds the corpora of Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea and uses F-LOB as the reference corpus. The stylistic analysis of the two works is conducted with the YiCorpus multifunctional corpus retrieval platform and Antconc 3.2.1 software for corpus text retrieval. By comparing the type/token ratio, mean word length, mean sentence length, and keywords, this study explores the different stylistic features of Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea in terms of lexical richness, vocabulary and sentence complexity, and keyword lists, providing new paths for appreciating literary works.