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Style,systemsandgenre:
atheore2calbaseforstylis2capproachestoauthorshipanalysis
AndreaNini
Cogni&veapproach Stylis&capproach
Chaski2001 McMenamin2002
Idiolectnotnecessary
Theindividualisuniquebecauseofstyle
Analysisofstylemarkers
Variabilitycausedbysocio-historicaldifferences
Idiolectisfundamental
Theindividualisuniqueintheuseofsyntac2cstructures
Analysisofsyntac2cstructures
Variabilitycausedbydifferencesincogni2vestructures
Cogni2ve Stylis2c
Scien2fic?
Analyst’sbias
Undefinedconcepts
Scien2fic?
Explana2onofvaria2on
Discriminator(s)
Marker3
Marker2
Marker1
Grant&Baker’sMethod
Marker2
Marker3
Marker1
Grant&Baker‘sMethod
Replicability Analyst’sbias
Undefinedconcepts
Explana2onofvaria2on
Systemic Functional Linguistics
Holis2c• Modernlinguis2ctheory• Coherenceofdescrip2on
Inherentlysociolinguis2c• Basedonno2onofchoice
Cogni2velyrealis2c• Neurolinguis2cs;NaturalLanguageGenera2on• Correla2onwithfindingsinsocialpsychology
Context
Seman2cs
Lexicogrammar
Expression
Contextual Variation
Semantic Variation
Lexicogrammatical Variation
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Semantic constant
Lexicogrammatical Variation
Expression Variation
Contextual Constant
Semantic Variation
Lexicogrammatical Variation
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Dialectal Variation Codal Variation Registerial Variation
Derek Bentley Case
Ithen…
LaypeopleThenI…
Policeofficers
ClausalTheme=TextualSeman2cs
Statement (constant)
Semantic Variation (Textual meaning)
Lexicogrammatical Variation
(Position of then)
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Discriminator(s)
Marker3
Marker2
Marker1
Grant&Baker‘sProposal
Marker3
Marker1
UsingSystemicFunc2onalLinguis2cs
Marker1
SFL
Grant&Baker‘sProposal
Replicability Analyst’sbias
Undefinedconcepts
Explana2onofvaria2on
UsingSystemicFunc2onalLinguis2cs
• gender• age• educa2onlevel• socialclass• ethnicity
• 300words• Introduc2ononly
Analysis 506Variables
Experiment1
Results
• Determina2ve• Ellipted
• Rela2onal • Nodifference
Numberofvariables Subjec2vity Distribu2on
forgenre
Experiment2Biber’sMul2dimensionalAnalysis
Experiment2Biber’sMul2dimensionalAnalysis
-15-10-505
10152025
Dimension1
Dimension2
Dimension3
Dimension4
Dimension5
Dimension6 Academicprose
Humani2es
Socialscience
Author1
Author2
Author3
Cogni&veapproach Stylis&capproach
Idiolectnotnecessary
Theindividualisuniquebecauseofstyle
Analysisofstylemarkers
Variabilitycausedbysocio-historicaldifferences
Idiolectisfundamental
Theindividualisuniqueintheuseofsyntac2c
structures
Analysisofsyntac2cstructures
Variabilitycausedbydifferencesincogni2ve
structures
SFLapproach
Idiolectistheorised
Theindividualisuniquebecauseofcogni2vedifferencesinstyle
Stylemarkers=syntac2cstructures
Variabilitycausedbycogni2vestructurescausedbysocio-
historicaldifferences
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