THE LEVEL OF PHYSICALITY IN JANE AUSTEN’S MAJOR NOVELS, THEIR FILM ADAPTATIONS AND HER PRIVATE LETTERS
THE LEVEL OF PHYSICALITY IN JANE AUSTEN’S MAJOR NOVELS, THEIR FILM ADAPTATIONS AND HER PRIVATE LETTERS

Summary/Abstract: The current paper explores the physicality in Jane Austen’s novels, their film adaptations, and her personal letters. The nouns referring to human body are examined in terms of frequency and context. Corpus linguistics is used as a method, involving the use of in-built online corpora, offline microcorpus creation, and the use of part-of-speech tagger and a concordancer. The results allow to conclude that, firstly, to Austen, referring to the human body was less appropriate in private written communication than in fiction; secondly, the film adaptations use some words in a literal sense, while the novels – in a figurative sense.

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