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Application of Multivariate Methods in the Investigation of Literary Style: The Phantom of the Opera
WU Xiao-fei, HU Dan
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2020.03.001
School of Foreign Studies, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, Wuhan 430073, China
This study attempts to construct a comprehensive and multivariate quantitative investigation path of literary style, and verify the applicability of the path with the English text of The Phantom of the Opera. Relevant variables include text interactivity, pointed clarity, standardized type-token ratio, moving-average type-token ratio, entropy and relative repeat rate. The verified investigation not only supports the applicability of the path, but also establishes the style of The Phantom of the Opera with high colloquialism and small vocabulary change in various aspects.
multivariate analysis, corpus, literary style, The Phantom of the Opera
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