A Corpus-Based Stylistic Analysis of Reem Bassiouney’s Novel “Mortal Designs”

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Damanhour University

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Stylistics is the study of stylistic variation in languages and of how this is exploited by users. This definition is general enough as it covers that those who use the term stylistics would want to be covered by it. The undertaken study is a functional corpus-based stylistic analysis of a text in which the writer uses linguistic features like adjectives, nouns, conjunctions, and sentence complexity to portray the social and cultural conditions of the texts. The main concern is to analyse the linguistic patterns to illustrate how certain stylistic devices work together to reflect certain perspectives of social life and the writer’s ideology. Thus, this study aims to stylistically analyse the lexical and semantic devices and features in Reem Bassiouney’s novel “Mortal Designs.” The data were analysed using AntConc software (version 4.0.10) with the help of TagAnt 2.0.4. The corpus size consisted of 71208 words. The paper highlights what is striking about Bassiouney’s narrative style. Leech and Short’s list is used as a framework. The researcher presents the appropriate numbers and frequency rates of the content words of each text and shows the social reasons behind using such words. The distribution of content words shows that the most frequently used part of speech is verbs, followed by nouns, adjectives, and adverbs, and simple words with short sentences are the distinguishing features of the authors’ writing style.

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