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Style, systems and genre: a theore2cal base for stylis2c approaches to authorship analysis Andrea Nini

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Style,systemsandgenre:

atheore2calbaseforstylis2capproachestoauthorshipanalysis

AndreaNini

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Cogni&veapproach Stylis&capproach

Chaski2001 McMenamin2002

Idiolectnotnecessary

Theindividualisuniquebecauseofstyle

Analysisofstylemarkers

Variabilitycausedbysocio-historicaldifferences

Idiolectisfundamental

Theindividualisuniqueintheuseofsyntac2cstructures

Analysisofsyntac2cstructures

Variabilitycausedbydifferencesincogni2vestructures

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Cogni2ve Stylis2c

Scien2fic?

Analyst’sbias

Undefinedconcepts

Scien2fic?

Explana2onofvaria2on

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Discriminator(s)

Marker3

Marker2

Marker1

Grant&Baker’sMethod

Marker2

Marker3

Marker1

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Grant&Baker‘sMethod

Replicability Analyst’sbias

Undefinedconcepts

Explana2onofvaria2on

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Systemic Functional Linguistics

Holis2c• Modernlinguis2ctheory• Coherenceofdescrip2on

Inherentlysociolinguis2c• Basedonno2onofchoice

Cogni2velyrealis2c• Neurolinguis2cs;NaturalLanguageGenera2on• Correla2onwithfindingsinsocialpsychology

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Context

Seman2cs

Lexicogrammar

Expression

Contextual Variation

Semantic Variation

Lexicogrammatical Variation

-

-

Semantic constant

Lexicogrammatical Variation

Expression Variation

Contextual Constant

Semantic Variation

Lexicogrammatical Variation

-

Dialectal Variation Codal Variation Registerial Variation

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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

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Grant&Baker‘sProposal

Replicability Analyst’sbias

Undefinedconcepts

Explana2onofvaria2on

UsingSystemicFunc2onalLinguis2cs

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• gender• age• educa2onlevel• socialclass• ethnicity

• 300words• Introduc2ononly

Analysis 506Variables

Experiment1

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Results

• Determina2ve• Ellipted

• Rela2onal • Nodifference

Numberofvariables Subjec2vity Distribu2on

forgenre

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Experiment2Biber’sMul2dimensionalAnalysis

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Experiment2Biber’sMul2dimensionalAnalysis

-15-10-505

10152025

Dimension1

Dimension2

Dimension3

Dimension4

Dimension5

Dimension6 Academicprose

Humani2es

Socialscience

Author1

Author2

Author3

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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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