Quantitative style analysis of Mo Yan and Zhang Wei's novels

Abstract

Selecting 24 novels written by Mo Yan and Zhang Wei as corpus, This paper analyzed the stylistic features of Mo Yan and Zhang Wei's novels from the perspective of quantitative style. Features include the pauses in sentences, the relevance of context, the type/token ratio, the frequency of the word string, high-frequency words and text clustering. Through statistic analysis, it is found that Mo Yan and Zhang Wei's works have much in common, which are both very oral, creative and can use all kinds of linguistic materials. However, they are different from one another in the usage of sentence patterns and of words and in the attention of social life. Compared with Mo Yan's language features, Zhang Wei's is more changeable.