A corpus stylistic approach to Casino Royale

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This paper is part on an ongoing project that takes a corpus linguistic approach to investigating the stylistic
\ncharacteristics of popular fiction. Here we present a corpus stylistic analysis of Ian Fleming’s novel Casino
\nRoyale, focussing on such issues as the construction of character and the stylistic characteristics of the
\nnovel as a whole. In so doing we also discuss the methodological value of a corpus approach to stylistic
\nanalysis, and its potential for providing an objective way in to the analysis of long texts. We use
\nWordSmith Tools (Scott 2004) and Wmatrix (Rayson 2005) to look at word frequencies, keywords, key
\nsemantic domains, clusters, concordances and semantic prosodies, and we look at the extent to which the
\nresults we obtain tie in with literary critical comment on the James Bond novels. Although this paper
\n40 focuses on one novel in particular, we also aim to discuss general theoretical issues concerning corpus
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