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T1 A Study of the Presence of Evaluative Adjectives in 19th- and 20th-Century Romance and Terror Novels
A1 Remacha García, Celia
A2 Universidad de Valladolid. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras
K1 Corpus
K1 Evaluative Adjective
K1 Noun
K1 Genre
K1 Novel
K1 Adjetivo Evaluativo
K1 Sustantivo
K1 Género
K1 Novela
K1 5701.11 Enseñanza de Lenguas
AB Based on corpus research, this study aims to investigate whether evaluative adjectives differ in frequency in the literary genres of romance and terror. The hypothesis is that the use of these adjectives is context-dependent, causing them to be more frequent in romance novels. The study also analyses the nouns that accompany these evaluative adjectives, classifies them into common, concrete, or abstract nouns, and compares them between the two genres. The second hypothesis argues that the nouns that accompany evaluative adjectives in the romance genre are more abstract than in terror. The analysis reveals that terror texts have 1.66% more evaluative adjectives than romance, contrary to the first hypothesis. This analysis also shows that there are more abstract nouns that accompany evaluative adjectives in terror novels than in the romance ones, negating the second assumption. As a main conclusion, the results prove that context is not relevant when analysing evaluative adjectives in this type of texts.
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/58731
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/58731
LA eng
DS UVaDOC
RD 28-abr-2024