Acknowledgements
Foreword
List of conventions
List of figures and tables
List of appendixes
List of concordances
CHAPTER 1 Introduction
1．1 The issues at stake
1．2 The design of this book
CHAPTER 2 Virginia Woolf's The Waves
2．1 Virginia Woolf and the modernist character
2．2 Introduction to The Waves
2．2．1 Conception
2．2．2 Structure
2．2．3 Method of characterization
2．2．4 Debate over characterization
2．2．5 Studies on lexical patterns
2．2．6 Psychoanalytic approaches to character
CHAPTER 3 Literature review
3．1 The state of affairs in literary characterization
3．1．1 Characters as people and as textual constructs
3．1．2 Character typologies
3．2 Psychological concepts in the perception of personality
3．2．1 Prior knowledge and schema theory
3．2．2 History of schema theory
3．3 Stylistic approaches to characterization
3．3．1 Culpeper's model for characterization： Top-down and bottom-up
3．3．2 Cognitive metaphor， mind style and characterization
3．4 Studies of language and personality
3．5 Conclusion
CHAPTER 4 Corpus approaches to the study of language and literature
4．1 Introduction
4．2 Corpus annotation
4．3 Techniques employed in corpus analyses
4．4 Corpus annotation of literary texts
4．4．1 Quantitative stylistic approaches to literary texts
4．4．2 Authorial style
4．4．3 Characterization
4．4．3．1 Characterization in The Waves
CHAPTER 5 Methodology
5．1 Introduction
5．2 The narrative framework of The Waves
5．2．1 Synchronic and diachronic structure
5．2．2 The Waves as e-text： Text annotation and text division
5．3 Wmatrix： A software tool for corpus analysis and comparison
5．3．1 The CLAWS and USAS taggers and their tagsets
5．4 The Waves through Wmatrix
5．4．1 Adaptation and revision of POS and USAS tagsets
5．4．2 Data layout in Microsoft Excel
5．4-3 Post-editing of the soliloquy text
5．4．4 Token count of the soliloquy text
CHAPTER 6 Character differentiation through word-dasses
6．1 Introduction
6．2 Word-dass and characters' language
6．2．1 Word-classes in the whole soliloquy text and in each character
6．2．2 Data comparison and treatment of the LL statistics
6．2．3 Characters' word-classes in each phase of life：
Significant differences relative to each character
a． Susan
b． Jinny
c． Rhoda
d． Louis
e． Neville
f． Bernard
6．2．4 Bernard's word-classes in the final soliloquy
6．3 Summary
CHAPTER 7 Character differentiation： Semantic fields
7．x Introduction
7．2 Data comparison and treatment of the LL statistics
7．3 The characters' schema of gender dichotomy
7．4 The female characters
7．4．1 Susan
a． The Natural World
b． The House
c． Home-making activities
d． Family and Motherhood
e． Time
f． The Senses
7．4．2 Jinny
a． The Body
b． Colours
c． Movement
7．4．3 Rhoda
a． The Natural World
b． Movement
c． Emotions
d． Shapes
e． Colours
7．5 The female characters' semantic fields and personality traits
7．6 The male characters
7．6．1 Louis
a． Geographical names
b． People and Relationships
c． The Natural World
d． History and Literature
7．6．2 Neville
a． Literature and Philosophr
b． Academic Interests
7．6．3 Bernard
a． Cognition and Abstraction
b． Intellectual Interests
7．7 The male characters' semantic fields and personality traits
7．8 Bernard's final summing-up and his dramatic role
7．9 Conclusion： The characters' semantic fields and their personality traits
7．10 Percival： The other-presented character
CHAPTER 8 Conclusion
8．1 Achievements
8．2 Characterization in this study
8．3 Reading through the computer
8．4 Authorial style versus character voice
8．5 Further directions
References
Websites
Appendixes
Author index
Subject index
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