Studies in authorship recognition - a corpus-based approach (Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes)

Product DescriptionThis study in authorship recognition takes as its starting point the intuitive capacity of readers to recognise authors under certain circumstances. Making use of corpus- and computerlinguistic methods and statistical procedures, the study shows that intuitive stylistic findings can in many cases be corroborated by empirical data. Ideally, the intuitive and the empirical approaches to style should be understood as complementing each other rather than as mutually exclusive concepts. The notion of style that emerges from this study is that of a number of basicdecisions made by the author of a text, from which the remaining discriminatory linguistic characteristics of that text,choices, are derived.About the AuthorThe Author: Heike Hänlein was born in 1969. From 1988 to 1994 she studied English and French at the University of Augsburg. Currently she works as awissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin at the Chair of Applied Linguistics (English) at the University of Augsburg.