Samuel Richardson に辿る Sentimentalism の源流

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  • Samuel Richardsonに辿るSentimentalismの源流--語形成の観点から
  • Samuel Richardson ニ タドル Sentimentalism ノ ゲンリュウ ゴ ケイセイ ノ カンテン カラ
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Samuel Richardson's linguistic innovation lies mainly in his dexterous use of words; he spared no pains to adopt a wide variety of unusual words or even to coin new words to meet his purposes in his fictional world. It is hard to say, however, whether this noteworthy technique has received due attention in the realm of linguistic studies at least for the past few decades after Ball's extensive survey (1976). Based on computer-assisted research, the present paper aims to explore Richardson's creative skills in his three major novels from the perspective of ‘word-formation. ’ Multitudes of compounds, along with their derivatives, are investigated, with our main focus on those which produce an intensifying effect on the one hand and a downtoning effect on the other. Several contemporary novels are compared statistically to demonstrate his salient lexical features. Through our comparative discussion, with some contextual analyses wherever appropriate, we hope to elicit Richardson's stylistic devices as a word-maker, which, we presume, were in time to be passed down to the novelists of the coming generation, particularly of ‘ sentimentalism, ’a literary trend in the late 18th century established as a reaction against Classicism.

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