Orality vs. Literacy in Two of Arthur Miller’s Plays: A Corpus-Based Study

Abstract

This study aims to compare the key protagonists in two masterpieces of Arthur Miller: Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman (first published in 1955) and Quentin in After the Fall and literacy features Invalid source specified.. Miller deployed a variety background vis-à-vis rate-innate nature. The study employs up-to-date corpus methods in analyzing literary texts by which the researchers: firstly, constructed two corpora in XML format for both plays; secondly, marked before compiling and parsing the corpora; and thirdly, extracted a subcorpus for each inspect, compare and contrast the linguistic aspects in question. The narration). Results affirm existential orality/literacy linguistic phenomena in protagonists as deemed by Ong, such as redundancy vs abundance. However, unlike presumption, both characters interdiscursively share certain language items, such as additives.In this sense, findings attest epistemological and cultural reflections that profile literary works. His characters are realistically portrayed in a way that conforms with what has been previously argued by Negm(1986& 1996 in his traditionallyqualitative analysis of the present study complements and supplements previous studies in aquantitative method of analysis.