Bronte Smudged by the Stirred Conscience: A Corpus Approach to Stylistics Analysis

Abstract

In this study, corpus stylistics is understood as an approach that integrates computational tools with stylistic analysis to reveal linguistic patterns that shape meaning and effect. Corpus stylistics is the combination of quantitative corpus evidence and qualitative interpretation which enables a systematic examination of how stylistic features function across texts. Studies conducted on this paper is the hybrid in nature as this paper attempts to analyze the use of repetition in Emily Bronte’s poems in terms of jeffries’s (2022) classification of free repetition. The purpose of this stylistic analysis is to institute the worth of style used in the poems of Bronte to create meanings. By using AntConc software, the occurrences of the types and forms of repetition are identified in terms of foregrounding. The conclusion of the study entails that the writer has used the repetition in terms of intermittent repetition and immediate repetition. Bronte used the device to embark on her emotional state.