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Table of contents
1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 STYLISTICS AND THE STUDY OF LITERATURE
1.2 INTRODUCING RHETORICAL FIGURES
1.3 RHETORICAL FIGURES AND COMPUTER-ASSISTED STUDIES OF LITERARY TEXTS .
1.4 SCOPE OF THE THESIS
1.5 MOTIVATION OF THE STUDY
1.6 ORGANISATION OF THE THESIS
2 SIMILES, COMPARISONS, METAPHORS AND FIGURATIVENESS
2.1 COMPARISON: SEMANTICS AND SYNTAX
2.1.1 Comparison in Rhetoric
2.1.2 Grammatical Expressions of Comparisons
2.2 COMPARISONS AND SIMILES
2.2.1 Comparisons of Inequality and Similes
2.2.2 Cognitive Accounts of Similes and Comparisons
2.3 FIGURATIVE SIMILES
2.4 METAPHOR AND SIMILES
3 COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES TO SIMILE DETECTION
3.1 CHALLENGES OF COMPUTATIONAL DETECTION OF SIMILES
3.1.1 Markers’ Polysemy
3.1.2 Comparison and Ellipsis
3.2 COMPUTATIONAL APPROACHES
3.2.1 Automatic Detection of Comparatives
3.2.2 Detection and Analysis of Non-Literal Comparisons
3.2.3 Automatic Detection of Similes
4 SIMILE ANNOTATION
4.1 PRINCIPLES
4.1.1 Types of Linguistic Annotations
4.1.2 The TEI as the Annotation Standard in the Humanities
4.2 SIMILE DESCRIPTION IN LITERARY STUDIES
4.2.1 The Structural Dimension
4.2.2 The Semantic Dimension
4.3 EXISTING CORPORA OF ANNOTATED COMPARISONS AND SIMILES Automatic Annotation of Similes in Literary Texts
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5 THE PROPOSED APPROACH
5.1 A GRAMMAR OF THE SIMILE
5.2 THE SYNTACTIC MODULE
5.3 THE SEMANTIC MODULE
5.4. THE ANNOTATION MODULE
6 TOWARDS AN ANNOTATED LITERARY CORPUS OF SIMILES
6.1 CORPUS PRESENTATION
6.2 EXPERTS’ ANNOTATION
6.3 THE CROWDSOURCING ANNOTATION PLATFORM
7 CORPUS-BASED APPLICATIONS
7.1 CORPUS DESCRIPTION
7.2 STEREOTYPICAL FROZEN LITERARY SIMILES
7.3 COLOURS AND SIMILES IN THE ENGLISH CORPUS
7.3.1 Why Study Colours in relation to Similes?
7.3.2 Basic Colour Terms and English Literature
7.3.3 Fully Fledged Colour Similes vs. Noun+CT Similes: Frequency and Stylistic Usage
7.3.4 Creativity and Noun+CT Similes
7.4 ON PROPER NOUNS IN COMPARATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS
8 CONCLUSION AND FUTURE WORK
9 REFERENCES
10 APPENDICES
