Abstract

Section 5.3 focused on the mind-styles of Esther, the first-person narrator and the third-person narrator in Bleak House from the viewpoint of collocations. In order to make the collocational characteristics of Esther’s narration clearer, this chapter presents a comparative study of collocations used by Dickens’ other first-person narrators: David in David Copperfield and Pip in Great Expectations. KeywordsWord FrequencyGreat ExpectationPsychological DistanceText SizePossessive PronounThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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