“正如书名所暗示的”:读者如何在亚马逊书评中谈论书名

IF 0.6 3区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Language and Literature Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI:10.1177/09639470221147788

Sara Bartl, E. Lahey

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摘要

大多数对文学文本的文体分析都是从文本本身开始的，在很大程度上忽略了之前的副文本元素。文体学中的这种空白程度如此之大，以至于在文体学的旗舰期刊《语言与文学》的后目录中搜索，都不会找到标题中包含“标题”或“副文本”的文章。在接下来的文章中，我们通过研究结果强调了这种忽视的含义，这些发现指出了标题对读者解释过程的重要性。根据我们对在线零售商亚马逊网站5800万字书评语料库的分析，本文报道的研究为许多理论家所声称的内容提供了证据，但他们往往没有提供实证支持，即标题有助于建立读者对文本的期望。

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‘As the title implies’: How readers talk about titles in Amazon book reviews

Most stylistic analyses of literary texts begin with the text proper, largely ignoring the paratextual elements that precede it. The extent of this lacuna within stylistics is so great that a search through the back catalogue of Language and Literature, stylistics’ flagship journal, returns no results for contributions whose titles contain the terms ‘title’ or ‘paratext’. In what follows we underline the implications of this neglect through findings which point to the import of titles for readers’ interpretive processes. Drawing on our analysis of a 58-million-word corpus of book reviews from the online retailer Amazon.com, the research reported on here provides evidence for what many theorists have claimed but for which they have often provided no empirical support, namely, that titles contribute to the establishment of reader expectations about a text.

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Language and Literature Multiple-

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1.70

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14.30%

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期刊介绍： Language and Literature is an invaluable international peer-reviewed journal that covers the latest research in stylistics, defined as the study of style in literary and non-literary language. We publish theoretical, empirical and experimental research that aims to make a contribution to our understanding of style and its effects on readers. Topics covered by the journal include (but are not limited to) the following: the stylistic analysis of literary and non-literary texts, cognitive approaches to text comprehension, corpus and computational stylistics, the stylistic investigation of multimodal texts, pedagogical stylistics, the reading process, software development for stylistics, and real-world applications for stylistic analysis. We welcome articles that investigate the relationship between stylistics and other areas of linguistics, such as text linguistics, sociolinguistics and translation studies. We also encourage interdisciplinary submissions that explore the connections between stylistics and such cognate subjects and disciplines as psychology, literary studies, narratology, computer science and neuroscience. Language and Literature is essential reading for academics, teachers and students working in stylistics and related areas of language and literary studies.