STORIES VERSUS THEORIES
A MULTIDIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS OF FICTION AND NON-FICTION PHILOSOPHICAL PROSE WRITING
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Applied Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics, Non-Fiction, Fiction, Genre, Philosophy, Multidimensional Analysis TaggerAbstract
Using the multidimensional analysis conducted on a corpus of 40 texts, this positivist study investigates the linguistic variation between philosophical fiction and non-fiction prose writings based on the scores of five dimensions calculated by MAT software. It uses the functional mapping of linguistic items to justify the differences in the dimension scores of both categories. The study finds that score difference on dimension three named explicit versus situation-dependent is quite significant because philosophical non-fiction is highly explicit in references. It hints at the independent status of the two types of writing as sub-genres of the philosophical prose.
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