From Modernity to Post-Modernity: Conflicting Voices in Literary Discourse – A Corpus Analysis of You and One

Abstract

This paper discusses the possibilities of a corpus analysis applied to literary study and interpretation. It is thus its goal to present some findings related to the disambiguation of some pronominal references, i.e. you and one, as they occur in speech and thought presentation in prose fiction, across periods in the 20th century. The texts selected are two of Virginia Woolf's novels (early and late modernist period) and one by Hugo Hamilton (in the postmodern era). The analysis benefits from a multi-layered interpretive framework drawing on discourse analysis, corpus-based approaches and literary study, particularly in that it unpacks ways in which writers make use of linguistic structures. These involve readers in a dialogic interpretation of the text's “polyphony” and “heteroglossia”, either conveying the generic pronoun reference or the protagonist's inner voice.

Democracy as Othering Within Finnish Education

“…Heteroglossic utterances can also be traced through the use of pronouns. De Sousa and Correia (2014) show how the heteroglossic utterances of the pronouns 'You' and 'One' shows the discursive 'act' of Self and Other -a metamorphoses of mirroring and multiple 'inner' voices. Using Bakhtin's framework (Bakhtin, 1981;1984) De Sousa and Correia (2014) show how pronouns (for example, I, we, they, them, us, it, their etc.)…”

“…De Sousa and Correia (2014) show how the heteroglossic utterances of the pronouns 'You' and 'One' shows the discursive 'act' of Self and Other -a metamorphoses of mirroring and multiple 'inner' voices. Using Bakhtin's framework (Bakhtin, 1981;1984) De Sousa and Correia (2014) show how pronouns (for example, I, we, they, them, us, it, their etc.) are heteroglossican endeavour between speakers and addressees whereby the voices of the 'Other[s]-within-the Self' overlap creating multiple discourses and multiple voices.…”

Virgina Woolf ve Arnold Bennett’in Derlem Temelli Analizi

“…The studies on Woolf generally focus on combining literary translation with corpus analysis techniques. The translations of different works of Woolf from various languages, including French, Italian, Persian, and Catalan, were analyzed from different perspectives; for instance, some of them investigated the repetitive patterns, some looked at the impact of ideological orientations, or some looked at how translators manifest their 'voice' (Bosseaux, 2004(Bosseaux, , 2006Cipriani, 2019;Giugliano and Keith, 2021;Maczewski, 1996;Pirhayati and Haratyan, 2018;Sousa and Correia, 2014). Apart from translation, a small number of studies focused on the literary analysis of Woolf using CL tools.…”