A MULTIDIMENSIONAL COMPARATIVE STUDY OF NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURY DRAMA AND NOVEL
Keywords:
Genre, Fiction, Biber, Comparative Study, Corpus, Multidimensional Analysis, Drama, NovelAbstract
This corpus based research provides insight how the text of same genre differentiates from each other and how intra genres variations take place. This study highlights the functional variations exist in two different genres of literature (drama and novel) of 19th and 20th centuries on the basis of analysis conducted on the texts of both genres by using software MAT. The texts of both of the genres are analysed on different five dimensions given by Biber and some major and minor variations are observed that both the texts differ at different dimensions. The intra genre and inter genre comparisons have been done which gives some interesting findings and results. This study further highlights the specific features of both of the genres which are the hallmark of these two very genres (novel and drama) of 19th and 20th centuries. This present research is concluded on very interesting findings which may pave the ways for further research in this arena.
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