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From the author: This article introduces the reader to computational stylistics (tools, corpora, statistics, interpretation of quantitative and qualitative patterns), specifically through the exploration of collocation analysis as a discovery procedure. The focus of the analysis is the word eyes in the fiction of Flannery O'Connor. The article also introduces the reader to the use of the first-generation Brown Corpus in computational stylistics. Statistical tests covered are mutual-information scores and t-scores (for collocations) and chi-square (for frequencies). The grammatical and semantic patterns investigated include voice and agentivity. Qualitative interpretive issues are illustrated by means of an examination of O'Connor's use of the word eyes in her exploration of sacramentalism. The word eyes is an interesting test case for computational stylistics, first because the eye has been treated extensively in the critical literature on O'Connor, and second because although eyes, as tokens, are extraordinarily easy to search for with computer programs, the grammatical contexts in which they appear and find significance are much more resistant to computational discovery.

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Title: Collocational analysis as a stylistic discovery procedure: the case of Flannery O'Connor's eyes.
Author: Donald E. Hardy
Publication: Style (Magazine/Journal)
Date: December 22, 2004
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 38Issue: 4Page: 410(18)

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