Semantic variation in idiolect and sociolect: Corpus linguistic evidence from literary texts

Computers and the Humanities

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 207-221

  Louwerse, Max M ^a  

^a University of Memphis   (United States)

Author keywords

Author identification; Coherence; Computational linguistics; Content analysis; Corpus linguistics; Idiolect; Latent semantic analysis; Literary period; Sociolect

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746059660     PISSN: 00104817     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:CHUM.0000031185.88395.b1     Document Type: Article

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