Alcohol and Tobacco Consumption in English and French Novels since the 1950s: A Corpus-stylistic Analysis

Francis Grossmann (1) , Marion Gymnich (2) , Dirk Siepmann (3)

1 LIDILEM - LInguistique et DIdactique des Langues Étrangères et Maternelles
2 Universität Bonn = University of Bonn
3 Universität Osnabrück - Osnabrück University

The article explores references to the consumption of alcohol and tobacco in English and French fiction since the 1950s from a corpus-stylistic and corpus-driven vantage point. The extraction of RLTs (Recurrent Lexico-syntactic Trees) related to alcohol and tobacco consumption from a corpus containing texts of five different literary genres (crime, romance, science fiction, fantasy and general fiction) has been used as a starting point for a comparison of the most productive RLTs in both languages and an analysis of their textual functions. The cigarette script and the drink script in English and French fiction are analyzed with respect to their diegetic, social and affective as well as identification functions

Mots clés: phraseology; novel; alcool; corpus driven; genres

Domaines: Linguistique; Littératures

Francis Grossmann, Marion Gymnich, Dirk Siepmann. Alcohol and Tobacco Consumption in English and French Novels since the 1950s: A Corpus-stylistic Analysis. Novakova, Iva; Siepman, Dirk. Phraseology and style in sub-genres of the novel: a synthesis of corpus and literary perspectives’., Palgrave Macmillan, pp.115-150, 2019, 978-3-030-23744-8. ⟨10.1007/978-3-030-23744-8_5⟩. ⟨hal-02013409⟩