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Evolution of vocabulary in the poetry of Sylvia Plath

机译:西尔维亚·普拉斯诗歌中词汇的演变

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In this study, we provide a quantitative analysis of the temporal evolution of word choice across the career of Sylvia Plath, a poet who suffered from mental illness, which culminated in her suicide. Her work provides an excellent case study for temporally indexed changes in vocabulary due to well-dated records of her productivity. We use simple functions to discriminate bulk trends in her vocabulary and classify words into those that accelerate, decelerate, or represent consistency in usage. Overall, we find that Plath's vocabulary was exceptionally consistent throughout her career from 1956 to 1963; however, we observe relative changes in the frequency of words used. Two examples of this evolution are in her use of colours and personal pronouns. Namely, we note a consistently increasing preference towards black and white above other colour words from 1956 to 1963 and, in contrast, we observe a marked transition from dominant use of third-person feminine to dominant use of first-person singular in her later work. We find that the most dynamic changes in word use occurred between March and May 1959 and we tie these observations to events recorded in Plath's journal entries. We propose that our function-discrimination approach offers a vital tool in the objective analysis of word-use for understanding style evolution and for correlation with a poet's life events that may influence their work.
机译:在这项研究中,我们对西尔维亚·普拉斯(Sylvia Plath)的职业生涯中选择单词的时间演变进行了定量分析,他是一名患有精神疾病的诗人,最终自杀。她的工作提供了一个出色的案例研究,可以很好地说明由于其生产率的良好记录而导致的词汇随时间变化的索引。我们使用简单的功能来区分词汇量的总体趋势,并将单词分类为可加速,减速或表示用法一致的单词。总体而言,我们发现普拉斯(Plath)从1956年到1963年的整个职业期间的词汇格外一致。但是,我们观察到所用单词的频率相对变化。这种演变的两个例子是她对颜色和人称代词的使用。就是说,我们注意到从1956年到1963年,人们对黑色和白色的偏爱程度一直高于其他颜色,与此相反,我们在后来的工作中观察到从第三人称女性占主导地位到第一人称单数占主导地位的明显转变。 。我们发现单词使用中最动态的变化发生在1959年3月至5月之间,我们将这些观察结果与Plath日记条目中记录的事件联系在一起。我们建议,我们的功能区分方法为客观分析单词使用情况提供了重要工具,有助于理解风格演变以及与可能影响其工作的诗人生活事件的相关性。

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    《Literary & linguistic computing》 |2017年第3期|660-671|共12页
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    Ludwig Maximilians Univ Munchen, Theresienstr 41-3, D-80333 Munich, Germany;

    Ludwig Maximilians Univ Munchen, Theresienstr 41-3, D-80333 Munich, Germany;

    Ludwig Maximilians Univ Munchen, Theresienstr 41-3, D-80333 Munich, Germany;

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