Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 18, No. 45.
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Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 07:03:18 +0100
From: "Yuri Tambovtsev" <yutamb@mail.cis.ru>
Subject: how to get the address of J. K. Rowling?
Dear HumanistList colleagues, I wonder if you could advise us? We wrote an
article on the material of the book by Joan K. Rowling "Harry Potter and
the Chamber of Secrets". Actually, we wrote out all the sentences with
various functions of the Gerund, Participle 1 and Verbal Noun from the
text. We defined 6 functions of the Gerund: 1) gerund as subject; 2) gerund
as part of the predicate; 3) gerund as an attribute in preposition to noun;
4) gerund as an attribute in postposition to noun; 5) gerund as an adverb;
6) gerund as an object. Some 5 functions were defined for the Participle 1:
1) participle 1 as part of the complex object; 2) participle 1 as the part
of predicate; 3) participle 1 as an attribute in preposition to noun; 4)
participle 1 as an attribute in postposition to noun; 5) participle 1 as an
adverb. Then, we counted the usage of the Gerund, Participle 1 and Verbal
Noun in the text sample of ten thousand words. The number of occurrences of
the chosen features of the text of Joan K. Rowling was compared to the
number of the analogical functions of the Gerund, Participle 1 and Verbal
noun of the texts of 16 British and American writers. We used the standard
"chi-criterion" test to check the similarity in the frequencies of these
functions. In this way the similarity between Joan K. Rowling and the 16
authers was found out. I wonder if Joan K. Rowling may be interested to
know what British or American writer is most similar to her style from this
point of view? Unforfunately, I do not know how to send our results to her.
May be, a sort of an open letter would be all right if published in some
British or American newspaper? I don't know the way out. This is why, I'm
looking forward to your advice to
<mailto:yutamb@hotmail.com>yutamb@hotmail.com Be well, remain yours
sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev, Novosibirsk Pedagogical university, Novosibirsk,
Russia <mailto:yutamb@hotmail.com>yutamb@hotmail.com
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