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英文文摘
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Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Purpose of this Study
1.2 Significance of this Study
1.3 An Overview of Agatha Christie and her Mystery Fictions
1.4 Layout of this Thesis
Chapter 2 Literature Review
2.1 Stylistics and Literary Stylistics
2.1.1 Style and Stylistics
2.1.2 Literary Stylistics
2.2 Stylometry and Empirical Studies on It
2.2.1 Stylometry
2.2.2 Empirical Studies on Stylometry
2.3 Summary
Chapter 3 Research Methodology
3.1 The Corpus-Based Approach
3.2 Corpora Used
3.3 Tools for Data Collection and Analysis
3.4 Procedures for Data Collection and Analysis
Chapter 4 Results and Discussion
4.1 On Lexical Level
4.1.1 Lexical Density
4.1.2 Word Length
4.1.3 The Distribution of Nominalizations
4.1.4 Summary
4.2 On Syntactic Level
4.2.1 Sentence Length
4.2.2 Coordinators and Subordinators
4.2.3 Summary
4.3 On Discourse Level
4.3.1 Cohesion of a Text
4.3.2 Pronoun Reference
4.3.3 Adverbial Connectors
4.3.4 Summary
Chapter 5 Conclusion
5.1 Major Findings
5.2 Implications
5.3 Limitations and Recommendations for Future Study
References
Publication
Acknowledgements
Resume