Fractality and Variability in Canonical and Non-Canonical English Fiction and in Non-Fictional Texts.

ABSTRACT: This study investigates global properties of three categories of English text: canonical fiction, non-canonical fiction, and non-fictional texts. The central hypothesis of the study is that there are systematic differences with respect to structural design features between canonical and non-canonical fiction, and between fictional and non-fictional texts. To investigate these differences, we compiled a corpus containing texts of the three categories of interest, the Jena Corpus of Expository and Fictional Prose (JEFP Corpus). Two aspects of global structure are investigated, variability and self-similar (fractal) patterns, which reflect long-range correlations along texts. We use four types of basic observations, (i) the frequency of POS-tags per sentence, (ii) sentence length, (iii) lexic

SUBMITTER: Mohseni M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8044424 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature