Point of View: A Linguistic Analysis of Literary Style

Constructions of speech and thought representation

“…A special place was reserved for sentences of free indirect speech or thought, treated as narrative sentences reflecting a SELF or subject of consciousness. While Coulmas' (1986a) volume further cemented the linguistic approach to speech and thought representation, Ehrlich (1990) provided a study of Woolf's literary style in the vein of Banfield (1982), and Fludernik (1993) presented an impressive array of evidence illustrating the many possibilities for representing speech and consciousness in literary fiction. In the field of corpus stylistics, Semino and Short (2004) brought in modern corpus techniques used on large corpora of speech, thought and writing representations to test and expand on the stylistic model first presented in Leech & Short (1981, chapter 10), with forms from indirect over free indirect to direct increasing in faithfulness to the words or thoughts of the character.…”

Hedges and Boosters in 19th century British Fiction

“…Indeed, several studies complement the fact that gender differences are important delimiters in linguistic adoptions in language. To explicate, Ehrlich (1990) studies a handful of canonical writers in utilization of authorial style in their explication of point of view. Though not particularly focusing on gender of the analyzed authors, she concludes that "Woolf's texts display a greater variety of cohesive devices than Hemingway's and James ' do" (p. 103).…”