Acknowledgements
Foreword
List of conventions
List of figures and tables
List of appendixes
List of concordances
CHAPTER 1 Introduction
1.1 The issues at stake
1.2 The design of this book
CHAPTER 2 Virginia Woolf's The Waves
2.1 Virginia Woolf and the modernist character
2.2 Introduction to The Waves
2.2.1 Conception
2.2.2 Structure
2.2.3 Method of characterization
2.2.4 Debate over characterization
2.2.5 Studies on lexical patterns
2.2.6 Psychoanalytic approaches to character
CHAPTER 3 Literature review
3.1 The state of affairs in literary characterization
3.1.1 Characters as people and as textual constructs
3.1.2 Character typologies
3.2 Psychological concepts in the perception of personality
3.2.1 Prior knowledge and schema theory
3.2.2 History of schema theory
3.3 Stylistic approaches to characterization
3.3.1 Culpeper's model for characterization: Top-down and bottom-up
3.3.2 Cognitive metaphor, mind style and characterization
3.4 Studies of language and personality
3.5 Conclusion
CHAPTER 4 Corpus approaches to the study of language and literature
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Corpus annotation
4.3 Techniques employed in corpus analyses
4.4 Corpus annotation of literary texts
4.4.1 Quantitative stylistic approaches to literary texts
4.4.2 Authorial style
4.4.3 Characterization
4.4.3.1 Characterization in The Waves
CHAPTER 5 Methodology
5.1 Introduction
5.2 The narrative framework of The Waves
5.2.1 Synchronic and diachronic structure
5.2.2 The Waves as e-text: Text annotation and text division
5.3 Wmatrix: A software tool for corpus analysis and comparison
5.3.1 The CLAWS and USAS taggers and their tagsets
5.4 The Waves through Wmatrix
5.4.1 Adaptation and revision of POS and USAS tagsets
5.4.2 Data layout in Microsoft Excel
5.4-3 Post-editing of the soliloquy text
