Abstract
Over the last few years, substantial work has been seen in “Corpus Stylistics’ and computational techniques to study the literary style. Previous studies conducted in corpus stylistics have not considered the full set of core linguistic features. Previous studies conducted on the style of Pakistani Fiction in English show their inability in presenting any framework which can be used for the comparison of styles taking into account the extensive range of linguistic features. These studies face validity concerns due to unrepresentative data, reliance on individual linguistic features and lack of internal and external comparisons. The present study is pioneering in nature and explores the discourse style variation among the leading novelists of Pakistani Fiction in English across Biber’s (1988)textual dimensions. Based on representative corpus of leading novelists of Pakistani Fiction in English, the significant statistical linguistic differences have been investigated and the discourse style variation among the leading novelists has been explored. Findings reveal the fact that the style of Tariq Ali has been found to be most deviant among all the novelists of Pakistani English-language fiction. Tariq Ali has been found using less involved, highly narrative, explicit, overt expression of persuasion/argumentation and abstract discourse style in nature
Sajid Ali,, Sajid Ahmad. (2016) Discourse Style Variation among the Leading Novelists of Pakistani Fiction in English: A Multidimensional Analysis, The ELF Annual Research Journal, Volume 18, Issue 1.
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